From one Place to an 'Other": Meanings, Ideologies, Identities, and Representations on the Covers of Japanese Self-Help Translations

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dc.contributor.advisorPelkey, Jamin
dc.contributor.authorSampson, Esther Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-14T16:37:58Z
dc.date.available2022-12-14T16:37:58Z
dc.date.copyright2022-08-08
dc.date.issued2022-12-14
dc.date.updated2022-12-14T16:37:58Z
dc.degree.disciplineCommunication & Culture, Joint Program with Ryerson University
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis study addresses gaps in paratextual, translation, and cultural theory research concerning the covers of Japanese self-help book translations. The study looks at five book covers of The Courage to be Disliked: the original Japanese and four culturally Western English translations from Australia, the UK, the US, and Canada. This study uses a novel approach to Multimodal Discourse Analysis specific to cross-cultural self-help book covers based on John Bateman’s GeM model. My results indicate that elements on the covers create disparate meanings between the original Japanese version and the English translations. In addition, the difference in meanings on the covers influence which ideologies and identities are represented on the covers. Ultimately, although the Japanese cover focuses on the book’s ability to provide the expertise of Alfred Adler on self-enlightenment, the English translations centre on the foreignness of the book, representing the book’s content, source text, and source culture as ‘Other’.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/40740
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectComparative literature
dc.subjectSocial research
dc.subject.keywordsJapanese self-help
dc.subject.keywordsBook covers
dc.subject.keywordsTranslations
dc.subject.keywordsMeaning
dc.subject.keywordsIdeology
dc.subject.keywordsIdentity
dc.subject.keywordsRepresentation
dc.subject.keywordsSocial semiotics
dc.subject.keywordsMultimodal discourse analysis
dc.subject.keywordsParatext
dc.subject.keywordsPeritext
dc.subject.keywordsPromotional peritext
dc.subject.keywordsCultural studies
dc.subject.keywordsCross-cultural communication
dc.subject.keywordsKnowledge dissemination
dc.subject.keywordsOther
dc.titleFrom one Place to an 'Other": Meanings, Ideologies, Identities, and Representations on the Covers of Japanese Self-Help Translations
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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