The Realization of Ideational Meaning of Multimodal Projection in Sinology Comics

Chinese classics have been widely adapted and transferred into comics in order to meet the needs and interests of modern audience. The projection system of sinology comics is an area relatively under-examined. This study aims at constructing the multimodal projection framework of sinology from the perspective of ideational metafunction based on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Visual Grammar, which is used to analyze sinology comics corpus in order to demystify the meaning-making process of multimodal projection. The result shows that the realization of multimodal projection in sinology comics is more complex than linguistic projection. It shows some unique features which differentiate sinology comics form other narrative comics.