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With a growing increase in the study on multimodality, translation scholars begin to take the visual mode into account. Comics, as a typical kind of multimodal texts which combine image and words, can be considered as multimodal meaning construction. In comics translation, multimodality could serve as a resource for translation. Drawing on studies of visual grammar, image-text relations and reinstantiation, this paper adopts an approach which encompasses both verbal and visual aspects of the meaning to investigate the translation of comics. By analyzing examples from Zhuang Zi Speaks: The Music of Nature, it aims to explore how semiotic resources are exploited in translation and how the visual meaning affects the re-instantiation of the target text. It is found that comics translation is a process of multimodal meaning re-instantiation with visual meaning largely activated in the process, motivating changes in actual choices of the verbal and justifying the strategies of condensation, addition and liberal translation. Correspondingly, the image-text relationships have undergone modifications, achieving better visual-verbal coherence. This research has extended both multimodal and t

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Author

Jing Zhao

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)