A semiotic construction of modern myth: An insight from Translation Studies
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Mythology, reality, semiotics, translationAbstract
This article proposes interdisciplinary research on the links between reality, semiotics, and translation by analyzing modern myths. When mythology is a structural and semiotic way of reading social reality, translation, which develops its root in the meaning-making mechanism of signs, lies at the core of the semiosis process of myth construction and interpretation. By comparing the architectural representations of China and Ireland on a poster, the article discusses different structures of myths and uses the Chinese representation as a case to explore the research questions, namely: How are myths constructed? What is the role of translation in revealing the process where social reality is coded as a myth? By answering these questions, this article wishes to highlight the translational core of the semiotic mythological structure.
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