Chapter 5. Conclusion
5.3. Suggestions for Future Research
In light of the limitations listed in Section 5.2, future researchers are encouraged to examine and analyze more picture storybooks, to see if explicitating visual
information in the verbal translation is really a common occurrence in the Chinese translation of picture storybooks, and if so how common. Furthermore, the five series of picture storybooks are still in the market, but they are published over a decade ago.
There are abundant translated picture storybooks published over the past 10 years, and it is suggested that scholars study picture storybooks published recently, or compare the translation of picture storybooks that are published in different time periods.
Moreover, scholars are encouraged to conduct research on the word-picture relationship in translated graphic books, and compare the study results of graphic novels with that of picture storybooks. To include this as a suggestion is because the target reader of graphic novels is mainly adults or the youths, while that of picture storybooks is mainly children. To see whether explicitation exist in the translated graphic novels might help us further understand the causes of explicitation, especially the explanation of the translator’s assumptions about children proposed by previous scholars. Besides, since the present study did not find the word-picture relationship of reduction and
counterpoint in the examined picture storybooks. Therefore, researchers are
encouraged to seek out picture storybooks that particularly have these two word-picture relationships, to see whether explicitation of visual information in the verbal translation exists in these two word-picture relationships.
Researchers are also encouraged to conduct field studies to explore what
happens in the translating and publishing process, and picture storybook reading events.
They might interview translators and publishers of picture storybooks, to know how translators and publishers view and deal with verbal-visual interplay in picture storybooks. This might help us to further understand the causes of explicitation.
Besides, how picture storybooks are read and understood in real reading events is important for further research as well, because according to Lewis (2001), picture storybooks serve as objects for the reader to contemplate, and the reader must make a contribution, such as using world knowledge or personal experience to interpret, to bring stories to life. Lewis also believes that we do not yet know enough about how
people read texts formed by multiple media, and we should take children’s readings more seriously (Lewis, 2001, p. 59). Therefore, researchers could conduct interviews or experiments to explore how children really read and interpret picture storybooks, and see whether the possible effects of explicitation proposed in the present research happen in reality.
This research is conceived as a project to further explore the word-picture relationship in Chinese the translation of picture storybooks, and to raise public and academic awareness in Taiwan about the verbal-visual interplay in picture storybooks.
It is hoped through this study, the word-picture interaction in picture storybooks will be appreciated and receive more attention by more translators, researchers, and readers, thereby really achieving the purpose of improving the quality of translation output, enhancing the pleasure of reading picture storybooks, and bringing the issue to academic attention to inspire more research in this area.
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