Far from being unsophisticated mass entertainment, comics and graphic fiction both imbue our contemporary culture, and are themselves imbued, with the concerns of law and justice. The intersections of law and contemporary culture are vital for comprehending the meaning and significance of law in today's world. This is followed by concluding remarks that end the paper. This section of the paper presents the research conducted thus far by a number of scientists who have engaged in drawing parallels between cognitivist theories and comics studies, including the work on visual and multimodal metaphor and metonymy and the visual language of comics. The main section of the paper contains the basic tenets of cognitive semantics, including the ideas traced in the works of the authors who have observed various types of comics from the cognitivist viewpoint. After providing introductory remarks, the paper describes the main views found within the works of authors considered to be the precursors of contemporary comics studies, Will Eisner and Scott McCloud, with the intention of providing the basics that would facilitate the reader’s understanding of the present issues. The aim of our paper is to present the ways in which cognitive linguistics has contributed to various developments in the domain of comics studies. The translation of a cartoon cannot be achieved unless the two codes are considered. The image-text semantic relation in this multi-model discourse can facilitate the comprehension of the context and the interpretation of the schemata of the cartoons more clearly. In addition, a cartoon is a multi-semiotic genre in which both text and image go hand in hand. The study concludes that if a cartoon is to be translated in such a way that the target cartoon sounds as natural and entertaining to the target audience as the original, the translator should take into account the context of culture, the context of situation (i.e., register analysis) and the metafunction(s) involved in the source cartoon and tries to render them as far as possible in the target language. The study is based on a number of Yemeni cartoons that have been translated in the Yemen Times, a prominent English-language Yemeni newspaper. The concept of equivalence is revisited within the framework of SFL to include register analysis and the three strands of meaning or metafunctions. It uses an approach based on Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL Halliday 1985/1994 Halliday and Matthiessen 2004). This study deals with the problems involving translating Arabic cartoons into English and the strategies that can be adopted by a translator to make them more accessible and more target-audience friendly. In both cases, the analysis was carried out using a methodology inspired to the contributionsįrom visual grammar (Kress and Leeuwen 2006), cognitive linguistics (Evans and Green 2006) and functionalist approaches to translation (Nord 2007). The second case study describes the problems encountered by a group of MA students in specialized translation, who were asked to translate, from American English to Italian, a frame taken from The Economic Meltdown Funnies, a comic book co-published by Jobs with Justice and the Institute for Policy Studies’ Program on Inequality and the Common Good.

Translations, and comments on the decisions made by professionals in order to manage translation problems. The first one focuses on some parallel texts, including samples from the English source text and their Italian The paper illustrates the results of two case studies. The narrative frames, as well as the interaction of words and images, may cause significant troubles to students as comics entail different translation strategies (Zanettin 2008) as well as As a matter of fact, the blending of different registers, the informal one in the characters’ balloons and the formal one in It shows how the translation of comics dealing with economic and financial topicsĬan be a hard task for university students in specialized translation.

This paper describes the results of a study focusing on the use of comic books for the didactics of economic (Goodwin 2012) and of economic translation, in a classroom of MA students in specialized translation. Recent research has shown that comic books and graphic novels can also deal with serious topics and, as a consequence, be used for educational purposes (Babic 2013). Comics have commonly be seen as a popular genre, having the main purpose of entertaining people.

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