Over the last decade, a range of theoretical and methodological developments has brought to the fore the contribution that non-verbal semiotics makes to written and spoken texts as loci of translation and interpreting activity. The first part of this essay surveys a number of interrelated areas of research that explore the dialectic between the physical and signifying structures in traditional written textualities. The focus then shifts toward the generative potential of digital communication technology as a catalyst for the emergence of new syncretic semiotic configurations across a range of texts and communicative encounters. The final section teases out the disciplinary implications of these developments, discussing how insights imported from multimodal theory are helping translation and interpreting scholars gain new insights into both old and new data.
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