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https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-7281-1852

Jagiellonian University

jeremi.ochab@uj.edu.pl 1

Abstract

It explores the obstacles resulting

At the macroscale, while such institutions in Poland as the Book Institute or

Thing Explainer does seem

the one thousand most common English words (a semantic dominant to be retained

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decode what he actually translates). comic book, picture book, popular science translation, intersemiotic translation, publishing practices ence picture book

Thing Explainer

various technicalities. I will begin by introducing the book, along with its ies on audiovisual translation, comic books, and linguistics, which present pages in

Thing Explainer

page numbers are identical in the source and target texts.

The origins of the book

Thing Explainer

൵, a science-themed webcomic whose are usually black-and-white strips with images 54
resembles a blueprint, however one also made with irregular hand-drawn constructed Thing Explainer posed to break the barrier in understanding how things work, as well as the (including his own correspondence) and relying on his intuition. In order to the second aspect. artistically challenging, or because their theme range and reader groups are

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usually omitted, which contradicts the very idea behind Thing Explainer. More is known about illustration in popular science, partly deriving (Papyrus rd towards visual communication. cognitive curiosity and creativity in problem solving. According to edu as problem solving.

It is obviously necessary to maintain a

balance between attractiveness 56
text-based book, image-based poster, etc.

Thing Explainer

be treated as separate posters (the last one is indeed a poster attached to the Thing Explainer are, however, characterised by a greater mosaic intricacy than in picture books, which has been distinguished by question that can be asked here is how this linkage between text and image (so-called channel-based explicitation

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!). Due to

Polish), it must be squeezed within a

whole page, along with the notes on the margins. A similar limitation applies to the three-column introductions

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generally means much shorter words. be commonly thought, it is not only the linguistic layer that undergoes without this, he would not have known how much space he had in the text

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unit and its length.

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is similar to the one where the publisher determines the translation strategy on the decisions made by the publisher and to his or her increased workload) pared a sample in the open-source graphics editor GIMP: this painstaking less, texts such as in Fig. 4 or 6 had to be edited by the graphic designer on 60
translator encountered white captions on white background, arrows leadin g poster, the sec- Another aspect that should be mentioned are the (editable) arrows link ing

Thing Explainer, text

was necessary to retain a similar line length by choosing appropriately long

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ing, although the text layout has only an aesthetic value here (the spe ed 4 cm imaginable arrangement, does it mean we are dealing with untranslat the translator provides only the translated text, whereas the editor in col per se is, at the same book. Other relationships are discussed below.

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which, however, is concerned mostly with literary works, and assumes the mention the reverse situation. panels constitute a graphically and thematically enclosed whole). For this strategy is actually used in comic books) or would not contribute to a good movement is suggested through arrows, there is a humorous addition (Fig.

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sure that subsequent paragraphs closed in a particular column, related to the comic-book onomatopoeias and explanations appearing in Thing Explainer Probably the most interesting relationship between text and image Thing

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, things are not normally called what they are actually called. a particular collocation, including proper names, ceased to be legible. Any is Opportunity), 64
solve the riddle, wandering around the Polish-language star charts helped tions had a wrong caption there. translation challenges. In the server rack (Fig. 6), everyone will rec ognise the IBM brand, even though in English the abbreviation is explained as the translated text. Here again, the graphic designer did not interpret the

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problems in non-picturebooks.

Summary

As I have demonstrated, in a popular science book, image and text can be indispensable companions and they can be interwoven as tightly as in a comic book or a picture book. In Thing Explainer, this relationship is numerous questions related to editorial and publishing practices. How to books and picture books are hidden in the readership report prepared by the should be established by editorial teams. 66

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