Japanese Self-Help Book Covers: Multimodal Cross-Cultural Translations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004769724)

Vendor: Esther Sampson
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Japanese Self-Help Book Covers: Multimodal Cross-Cultural Translations

$71.00

Japanese Self-Help Book Covers: Multimodal Cross-Cultural Translations

$71.00
Format: Paperback
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Why does the same book look so different around the world? This study examines the global covers of the Japanese bestseller The Courage to Be Disliked. Using a new approach to Multimodal Discourse Analysis, it compares editions from Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, to ask how design shapes meaning. You will see how small visual choices--colour, layout, images, and typography--shape ideas about the "East" and the "West," construct identities, and circulate ideology. By examining book covers as powerful paratexts, this study reveals how translation and design reshape cultural meaning across borders.

Author: Esther Sampson
ISBN-10: 9004769722
ISBN-13: 9789004769724
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2026
Pages: 142
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.33d
By Esther Sampson
By Esther Sampson
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Esther Sampson is a PhD student in Communication & Culture at York University/TMU focusing on research in semiotics and culture with her most recent publication, Multimodality and Polysemiosis, in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition (Elsevier, 2026).

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