Exploring Approaches to Interpreting Studies

• DOI: 10.1515/css-2018-0010
• Publication Date: 2018-04-26T22:15:39Z
• Authors: Binhua Wang
• Keywords: Social semiotics; Visual Semiotics; Semiotics of culture; Relevance; Multimodality; Paralanguage

Abstract This article explores the relevance of semiotic perspectives on and approaches to Interpreting Studies. can be perceived as textual (re)production, communicative interaction, a sociocultural activity, studied in linguistic structural approach at micro-dimension, pragmatic meso-dimension, macro-dimension respectively. Different degrees applicability identified semiotics, interpretive social semiotics. Multimodal analysis integrating paralinguistic non-linguistic semiotics is having great potential examining process interpreting its entirety.