These activities benefit professional animators and students who want to extend their knowledge.
Animation festivals and forums have also multiplied in Taiwan. Taiwan has seen an increased interest in animation in recent years, with many more artists and craftsmen dedicating themselves to the field. I thus conclude that the books became easier to follow for a wider, in this case Swedish, audience mostly because of efforts by the author and less because of the translator. This, however, could not be proven in the Swedish translations.
What could thus be expected in the translated versions would be omissions and additions in especially the first book, but less need for that in later books. The writer also used more details concerning locations, with added words to specify a place. And indeed, even though some changes could be due to coincidence there was a specific pattern evolving in the series, in that the originally Irish cultural background became less exclusive and more universal. My hope was to be able to show this by comparing linguistic features.
If the original audience was expected to be Irish, or British, with very much the same cultural background as the author’s, the imagined subsequent audiences would change with success. My original thesis was that the writer could not be sure of the success of the first book, but would definitely be aware of a worldwide audience for at least his third book, due to, for example, questions raised by the translators. The books are about the boy Artemis Fowl, and were presumably conceived as children’s books. A close reading of a series of books by Eoin Colfer that enjoyed universal success showed a change in the language between the books especially with respect to minor linguistic features such as choice of location and abstract vs.
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