Provides a new model for text analysis which acknowledges the impact of technological development Offers a comprehensive picture of how a multimodal text can be meaningfulApplies the new model to a range of empirical data to test and exemplify its usefulness as a tool for multimodal source text analysis

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Sara Dicerto is a research associate at King's College London and a teacher of Modern Foreign Languages at Ark Globe Academy, UK. Her interest in Pragmatics and its application to multimodal issues in translation developed during her studies in Italy and the UK, as well as during her freelance work as a translator.

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1: A New Model for Source Text Analysis.- 2: On the road to Multimodality: Semiotics.- 3: Multimodal Meaning in Context: Pragmatics.- 4: Analysing Multimodal Source Texts for Translation: A Proposal.- 5: Multimodal ST analysis the model applied.- 6: Multimodal ST analysis current status, opportunities, ways forward.