A Review of Multimodal Pragmatics and Translation: A New Modal for Source Text Analysis

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Abstract: This paper is a book review of Multimodal Pragmatics and Translation: A New Modal for Source Text Analysis. It first depicts an overview of the whole picture of the book with a brief summary of each chapter, and then discusses how it develops a model for textual analysis of multimodal source texts applicable to translation studies from a pragmatic perspective. Finally, the merits and demerits in this book are pointed out.