Analyzing Image-text Relations in Chinese Classic Comic: A Social Semiotic Perspective | ||
| جستارهای زبانی | ||
| Article 13, Volume 16, Issue 1 - Serial Number 85, 1404, Pages 299-327 PDF (1.2 M) | ||
| Document Type: مقاله تحقیق | ||
| DOI: 10.48311/LRR/lrr.2025.161299 | ||
| Author | ||
| JIAMING QI* | ||
| PhD, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanjing University of Science and Technology ZiJin College, Nanjing, China | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Since comics comprise images and texts, the relations between them should be a major concern of comics studies. However, few studies have focused on the intersemiotic interaction between images and texts in the meaning construction of Chinese classic comics. This study applies Martinec and Salway’s system to Tsai Chih-Chung's English comic version of The Analects of Confucius (The Analects), attempting to explore the image-text relations in Chinese classic comics. It is found that the image-text relations in Tsai Chih-Chung's English comic version of The Analects can be summarized as unequal-status and logico-semantics combined. Quantitative analysis shows that the images are always subordinate to the texts, and in terms of logico-semantic relations, all of subsystems but “image more general” are included. Besides, the distribution of the logico-semantic relations of image and text indicates that two different subsystems, namely expansion and projection, integrate and work together to create meanings in this version. Qualitative analysis shows that the tactful deployment of the combinations of image-text relation in The Analects makes it visually-verbally coherent. The intersemiotic interaction between images and texts also contributes a lot to the discourse meaning construction of Tsai Chih-Chung's English comic version. However, in The Analects, the image-text relation relies too much on the extension of the image by the text as well as the projection of locution. This study provides a case reference for the analysis of Chinese classic comic as multimodal discourse, and also contributes to promoting the overseas dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| image-text relations; The Analects of Confucius; Tsai Chih-Chung; English comic version | ||
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