Originally published on Facebook · 25 August 2026 · View original post
At Last — a New VISUAL-EU Research Output Has Been Published 🇪🇺📚🎉✨
I am pleased to share that my research article, “From Visibility to Visualisation: English–Polish Terminology and Resemiotisation in EU Policy Infographics,” has been published in LTD: Linguistic & Translation Dimensions, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2026), pp. 38–51 📖🌍🖥️
The study distinguishes between institutional visibility and visualisation in English–Polish EU policy infographics 🇪🇺🗣️🎨 It is based on a purpose-built corpus of 12 English-language infographic pages published by the Council of the European Union and their Polish-language counterparts 🔎📊
The analysis examines:
🔹 communicative purpose 🗨️
🔹 institutional terminology 📚
🔹 popularising reformulation ✍️
🔹 visual organisation 🎨
🔹 English–Polish translation shifts 🇬🇧🇵🇱
The findings show that most Polish pages retained the original visual structure and key numerical relations ✅📈 However, one page remained unlocalised, while three translated materials contained inconsistencies involving a date, century, or policy status ⚠️🗓️
The central conclusion is that simply making EU content visible through a Polish-language webpage does not automatically guarantee equivalent access to information 🌐❗ Effective bilingual visualisation is a quality-sensitive process of resemiotisation requiring terminological accuracy, multimodal coherence, and careful version control 🔍🧩📑
The article also proposes an auditable workflow for using EU infographics as research and teaching materials, helping students critically examine how European policies are translated, visualised, and communicated 🎓💡🇪🇺
The research was conducted within the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module:
“Visualizing the EU: Enhancing Public Awareness of European Policies, Values, and Initiatives at Polish HEIs” — VISUAL-EU 🇪🇺🏛️✨
Grant Agreement No. 101235890, co-funded by the European Union 🤝💙💛
🔗 DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65821/ltd-2026-2-1-04
Co-funded by the European Union 🇪🇺 Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
#VISUALEU #JeanMonnet #ErasmusPlus #EuropeanUnion #VIZJAUniversity #EUCommunication #Infographics #Multimodality #TranslationStudies #EnglishPolishTranslation #EuropeanStudies #OpenAccess
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