Anne O’Connor will give a lecture as part of the Université de Bourgogne’s Centre Interlangues – Texte, Image, Langage seminar series on November 15. The lecture is available online, via Teams: https://msteams.link/8QO5.
Abstract: As a global institution, the Catholic Church is committed to communicating in multiple languages and has long embraced multimodal forms of communication. The multilingual and multimodal communication of the Catholic Church therefore offers an excellent opportunity to comparatively analyse modes and resources employed in different historical eras across languages and cultures. In this talk, the issue of multimodal translation will be explored using the examples of nineteenth century books and periodicals and a contemporary website. Using these as ‘a field of application’ (Bezemer & Jewitt, 2010) or enquiry, I will explain the theoretical approaches and methodologies being employed in the study of these multimodal fields. Specifically, with reference to the verbal and the visual, I will explore how meaning is made with different semiotic resources and their interactions, and how these resources and interactions fare in translation.