The Translator of Picturebooks and Multimodality. Between Postulates and Reality

• Authors: Natalia Lazreg

Abstracts

EN

This study presents some of the results stemming from my research on picturebook translations for children and young adults in the context of multimodality, and in particular, the strategies used by translators of this specific type of multimodal message. The aim of the study is to determine whether translation scholars’ postulates on picturebook’s translation are reflected in reality. In order to determine this, I will investigate the choices of translators of this medium and their awareness of multimodality. I intend to conduct a series of individual in-depth interviews with picturebook translators. The first interview has already been conducted and analysed, and in this paper I present the results of this analysis. In the examples cited from the supporting material, it can be observed that the translator took into account the relationship between the textual and visual layers, changing the original text in accordance with the visual layer.

Keywords

EN

multimodality; children’s literature translators; picturebook; literary translation

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Oddział we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2022
• Volume: Special Issue
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 99-108

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Natalia Lazreg

• Doctoral School of the Faculty of Philology, University of Wroclaw

• https://orcid.org/0000000204038204

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34616/ajmp.2022.18.7

Biblioteka Nauki

2233983