Onomatopoeia: A relevance-based eye-tracking study of digital manga

This study is concerned with the reception of onomatopoeia in English translation digital manga. In manga, often presented as part aesthetics, being both verbal ( meaning ) and non-verbal showing simultaneously. Drawing on relevance-theoretic notion a - saying continuum (Sperber Wilson 1995), this aims to identify factors that affect reading behaviour including strategies degree / ness. We conducted an eye-tracking gain empirically supported insight into readers’ interaction Findings show full-textual substitution, which hybrid , attracts most interest area receives attention when compared annotation or Japanese original. turn indicates -ness influences way readers interact The conclusion separating elements manga could result loss engagement potential readers, substitution would be recommended strategy for best level attention. • Full-Textual Substitution readers' more than other strategies. Separating potential. level. Eye-tracking Relevance theory foster theoretically-grounded, evidence-based approach.