Critical Review of Translating Picturebooks: Revoicing the Verbal, the Visual, and the Aural for a Child Audience
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https://doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v9.n5.2020.31975Keywords:
Translation. Picturebooks. Children’s literature. Multimodality.Abstract
This critical review comments on the work Translating Picturebooks: Revoicing the Verbal, the Visual, and the Aural for a Child Audience, by Riitta Oittinen, Anne Ketola, and Melissa Garavini. The book deals with the translation of picturebooks for a child audience, focusing on the specificities of illustrated works as multimodal entities. The implications of the illustrations in the translator’s practice and the reception of the translations by a public that includes adults and children are discussed in the book. These reflections are inserted within the framework of translation studies concerning multimodality and children’s literature.
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