{"title":"When the classic speaks for children","authors":"Xi Chen","doi":"10.1075/babel.00175.che","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bob Dylan has significantly influenced American song tradition and popular music for more than five decades. As his songs are famous for the creative poetic expressions, they are not merely song lyrics, but also can be regarded as lyric poems. This paper aims to investigate the retranslation of Bob Dylan’s songs in bilingual picture books to explore how his classic musical works are repackaged both verbally and visually for contemporary children. The data for analysis are selected from two bilingual picture books on Dylan’s songs published in China in 2018. Firstly, it conducts a detailed textual analysis of the English and Chinese song lyrics to analyze the appropriate translation strategies and methods for song translation. Secondly, based on visual narratives (Painter, Martin and Unsworth 2013), it analyzes the intersemiotic relations between texts and images in picture books to discuss how the emotions and narratives in Dylan’s songs are visually represented.","PeriodicalId":40183,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Litteratures Plurielles","volume":"11 1","pages":"780-795"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Babel-Litteratures Plurielles","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00175.che","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Bob Dylan has significantly influenced American song tradition and popular music for more than five decades. As his songs are famous for the creative poetic expressions, they are not merely song lyrics, but also can be regarded as lyric poems. This paper aims to investigate the retranslation of Bob Dylan’s songs in bilingual picture books to explore how his classic musical works are repackaged both verbally and visually for contemporary children. The data for analysis are selected from two bilingual picture books on Dylan’s songs published in China in 2018. Firstly, it conducts a detailed textual analysis of the English and Chinese song lyrics to analyze the appropriate translation strategies and methods for song translation. Secondly, based on visual narratives (Painter, Martin and Unsworth 2013), it analyzes the intersemiotic relations between texts and images in picture books to discuss how the emotions and narratives in Dylan’s songs are visually represented.
鲍勃·迪伦在50多年的时间里对美国传统歌曲和流行音乐产生了重大影响。由于他的歌曲以富有创造性的诗意表达而闻名，这些歌曲不仅是歌词，而且可以被视为抒情诗。本文旨在探讨鲍勃·迪伦的歌曲在双语绘本中的重新翻译，探讨他的经典音乐作品如何在语言和视觉上重新包装给当代儿童。分析数据选自2018年在中国出版的两本关于迪伦歌曲的双语绘本。首先，对英汉歌词进行详细的文本分析，分析歌曲翻译的合适策略和方法。其次，以视觉叙事为基础(Painter, Martin and Unsworth 2013)，分析绘本中文本与图像的符合性关系，探讨迪伦歌曲中的情感与叙事是如何在视觉上表现出来的。
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