Images in Picturebooks: Convergent or Divergent Identities?
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https://doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v12.n1.2023.48179Keywords:
Translation of Children's Literature. Picturebooks. Visual Narratives. Identities. Piggybook. Clifford, the Big Red Dog.Abstract
The aim of this paper is to discuss the construction of meanings in picturebooks to possibly establish empathy with the prospective reader. As part of a broader study, its focus of interest is on Piggybook, by Anthony Browne, and Clifford, the Big Red Dog, by Norman Bridwell, and their translated versions into Portuguese, considering character design, in a perspective of complementarity between the two semiotic modes, image and verbiage (verbal language). In the translation of children's literature, most of the studies focus on character design and the effects they may have on choices made in translated texts, with a basis on arts studies. In linguistic studies, picturebooks have been examined from the perspective of sociosemiotics, based on the grammar of the visual which does not take into account images in a sequence. The present study is relevant because it is aimed at the construction of meanings in picturebooks and grounded in the translation of children’s literature, using as a method of analysis a sociosemiotic reading of visual narratives, i.e., images presented in a sequence. Considering complementarity relations of image and verbiage in the construction of meanings, the study suggests that different constructions have an effect on themes intertwined in Anthony Browne's Piggybook, and Norman Bridwell’s Clifford, the Big Red Dog.
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