| Collection Title: | SIU Thesis | | Title : | A Multimodal Analysis of Tsai Chih-chung's English Comic Version of The Analects of Confucius: A Social Semiotic Perspective | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Jiaming Qi, Author ; Saengchan Hermchua, Associated Name ; Dhirawit Pinyonatthagarn, Associated Name | | Publisher: | Pathumthani: Shinawatra University | | Publication Date: | 2023 | | Pagination: | xiii, 175 p. | | Layout: | Tables, ill | | Size: | 30 cm. | | Price: | 500.00 Baht | | General note: | SIU THE: SOLA-PhD-SCS-2023-16
Thesis. [PhD.[Philosophy in Semiotics and Cultural Studies]]. -- Shinawatra University, 2023 | | Languages : | English (eng) | | Descriptors: | [LCSH]Comic books, strips, etc
[LCSH]Confucius
[LCSH]Semiotics -- Social aspects
| | Keywords: | comic version of The Analects of Confucius,
Tsai Chih-Chung,
Multimodal discourse meaning construction,
Visual meanings of the images,
Image-text relations | | Abstract: | The Analects of Confucius is one of the representative works of traditional Chinese culture and has been translated into different versions. Tsai Chih-Chung's English comic version is one of the most popular among the different translated versions. It has a considerable potential to spread Chinese culture by multimodal means. However, so far, there have been few multimodal analysis of Tsai Chih-Chung's Chinese classic comics.
Taking Tsai's English comic version of The Analects as a case, this study attempts to have a qualitative analysis of Chinese classic comics based on Painter et al.’s (2013) “New Visual Grammar” and Martinec and Salway’s (2005) “System for Image-text Relations”. It intends to answer three research questions: (1) How do the visual modes in Tsai's English comic version of The Analects realize interpersonal meaning, ideational meaning and textual meaning? (2) How are the visual and verbal modes related to one another in Tsai's English comic version of The Analects? (3) How are the meanings of Confucius fundamental thoughts constructed in Tsai’s English comic version of The Analects?
Through the analysis, it is found that the interpersonal meaning, ideational meaning and textual meaning all have made great contribution to constructing the discourse meaning of Tsai’s English comic version of The Analects. However, ideational meaning contributes most to the discourse meaning construction, followed by interpersonal meaning and textual meaning respectively. The textual meaning and interpersonal meaning are not realized as fully as the ideational meaning in Tsai’s English comic version. Furthermore, the intersemiotic interaction between images and texts also contributes a great deal to the discourse meaning construction of Tsai’s English comic version. The texts always take the dominant place and the images are subordinate in Tsai’s English comic version. The distribution of the logico-semantic relations of image and text indicates that the relations of expansion and projection integrate and work together to create meanings in Tsai’s English comic version. It is also found that the connotations of Confucius fundamental thoughts “Junzi” (gentleman) and “Ren” (benevolence) in Tsai's English comic version are constructed by the deployment of similar options concerning the meta-meaning systems as well as the same sub-relations of image-text logico-semantic relations.
It is suggested that Tsai's English comic version of The Analects should be improved in terms of the ambience system, framing system and focus group system. Moreover, various ways of intersemiotic interaction should be encouraged to create a better reading experience for readers.
This study not only provides a case reference for the analysis of multimodal discourse in Chinese classic comics, but also provides reference for the optimization of Chinese classic comics’ design and innovation, thus contributing to the overseas dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. | | Curricular : | BALA/GE/MTEIL | | Record link: | http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=28647 |
SIU Thesis. A Multimodal Analysis of Tsai Chih-chung's English Comic Version of The Analects of Confucius: A Social Semiotic Perspective [printed text] / Jiaming Qi, Author ; Saengchan Hermchua, Associated Name ; Dhirawit Pinyonatthagarn, Associated Name . - [S.l.] : Pathumthani: Shinawatra University, 2023 . - xiii, 175 p. : Tables, ill ; 30 cm. 500.00 Baht SIU THE: SOLA-PhD-SCS-2023-16
Thesis. [PhD.[Philosophy in Semiotics and Cultural Studies]]. -- Shinawatra University, 2023 Languages : English ( eng) | Descriptors: | [LCSH]Comic books, strips, etc
[LCSH]Confucius
[LCSH]Semiotics -- Social aspects
| | Keywords: | comic version of The Analects of Confucius,
Tsai Chih-Chung,
Multimodal discourse meaning construction,
Visual meanings of the images,
Image-text relations | | Abstract: | The Analects of Confucius is one of the representative works of traditional Chinese culture and has been translated into different versions. Tsai Chih-Chung's English comic version is one of the most popular among the different translated versions. It has a considerable potential to spread Chinese culture by multimodal means. However, so far, there have been few multimodal analysis of Tsai Chih-Chung's Chinese classic comics.
Taking Tsai's English comic version of The Analects as a case, this study attempts to have a qualitative analysis of Chinese classic comics based on Painter et al.’s (2013) “New Visual Grammar” and Martinec and Salway’s (2005) “System for Image-text Relations”. It intends to answer three research questions: (1) How do the visual modes in Tsai's English comic version of The Analects realize interpersonal meaning, ideational meaning and textual meaning? (2) How are the visual and verbal modes related to one another in Tsai's English comic version of The Analects? (3) How are the meanings of Confucius fundamental thoughts constructed in Tsai’s English comic version of The Analects?
Through the analysis, it is found that the interpersonal meaning, ideational meaning and textual meaning all have made great contribution to constructing the discourse meaning of Tsai’s English comic version of The Analects. However, ideational meaning contributes most to the discourse meaning construction, followed by interpersonal meaning and textual meaning respectively. The textual meaning and interpersonal meaning are not realized as fully as the ideational meaning in Tsai’s English comic version. Furthermore, the intersemiotic interaction between images and texts also contributes a great deal to the discourse meaning construction of Tsai’s English comic version. The texts always take the dominant place and the images are subordinate in Tsai’s English comic version. The distribution of the logico-semantic relations of image and text indicates that the relations of expansion and projection integrate and work together to create meanings in Tsai’s English comic version. It is also found that the connotations of Confucius fundamental thoughts “Junzi” (gentleman) and “Ren” (benevolence) in Tsai's English comic version are constructed by the deployment of similar options concerning the meta-meaning systems as well as the same sub-relations of image-text logico-semantic relations.
It is suggested that Tsai's English comic version of The Analects should be improved in terms of the ambience system, framing system and focus group system. Moreover, various ways of intersemiotic interaction should be encouraged to create a better reading experience for readers.
This study not only provides a case reference for the analysis of multimodal discourse in Chinese classic comics, but also provides reference for the optimization of Chinese classic comics’ design and innovation, thus contributing to the overseas dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. | | Curricular : | BALA/GE/MTEIL | | Record link: | http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=28647 |
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