English-French contrastive and multimodal study of the translation of expressive relief constructions in comics
Abstract
Translating interjections, onomatopoeias and inarticulate sounds has become a challenge due to the lack of boundaries of each unit and their relation to emotions. The main objective of this article is the contrastive and multimodal analysis of English expressive relief constructions in their passage into French. For this purpose, a corpus constituted by series of American comics is established, which has allowed us to analyze the emotion of relief and the properties of each construction from a verbal and visual perspective, highlighting its semantic, phonetic, pragmatic, morphosyntactic, and paralinguistic aspect. Although relief is an emotion present in our everyday life, comics do not prolifically represent that reality in their constitution. However, of the relief constructions found, most are modified into French, despite the tendency to prevail the English original. Thus, this study provides methodological keys to translate the expressive constructions of relief.
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