De-bordering Comics Culture Multilingual Publishing in the Finnish Field of Comics

This chapter focusses on the practices of multilingual publishing in Finnish comics. Ralf Kauranen examines their implications for linguistic borders in comics culture on an institutional level and in comics as a multimodal art form, and he suggests a typology of different ways of presenting a comic...

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Published inThe Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders pp. 64 - 86
Main Author Kauranen, Ralf
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2020
Edition1
Subjects
Nordic Comics
English Language Dialogue
Speech Balloons
Air Hostess
Swedish Language Schools
Finnish Comics
Young Man
Comics Album
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Circus Troupe
Vice Versa
Caption Box
Inside Back Cover
Shantih Shantih
Finnish Text
Finnish Translation
Comics Page
Bottom Margin
Ketchup Bottle
Hakuna Matata
Multilingual Publishing
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Summary:This chapter focusses on the practices of multilingual publishing in Finnish comics. Ralf Kauranen examines their implications for linguistic borders in comics culture on an institutional level and in comics as a multimodal art form, and he suggests a typology of different ways of presenting a comic multilingually. Bi- or multilingual publishing de-borders comics culture and strengthens transnational tendencies, while the practices simultaneously reproduce other borders. In relation to the multimodal framework of representation that is characteristic of comics, Kauranen sheds light on how the connections between verbal and visual are formed in different ways based on the chosen practice of multilingual presentation: these both invite variegated reading paths connected to the linguistic competencies of different reader positions and posit textual elements in different languages in distinct relation to the visuality of the comics page.
ISBN:9780367203153
0367203154
DOI:10.4324/9780429260834-4