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Open AccessPublished: 17 August 2026
Open AccessPublished: 17 August 2026Visualizing Culture-Specific Terms: Multimodal Paratexts in the French Translation of Things Fall Apart
Linguistic Exploration · 21–36 · 10.55121/le.v3i2.102394
Culture-specific terms in literary translation pose challenges because their meanings extend beyond language into material form, ritual practice, sound, gesture, and symbolic associations. In translated texts, explanatory footnotes are often concise and verbal, risking semantic reduction when culturally dense concepts are compre