In a globalised world with unpredictable tensions and a digitalised world with divides in the use of technology,” translation” never stops playing a major role in several domains of activity. In a few decades, this double move of globalisation and digitalisation has transformed and is still transforming our ways of communicating. Communication is more and more made of a complex set of (verbal and non-verbal) signs. This is not completely new, but the frequency and the diversity of multimodal interactions are impacting our daily life, blurring categories such as “translation”. The audiovisual translation (AVT) is a meaningful example of this intersemiotic translation, in terms of diversity and number of signs, and consequently a dynamic research field – coping with different challenging modes. More important, the AVT field and other types of multimodal translation imply to re-visit several concepts of Translation Studies (TS).

Keywords: audiovisual translation, intersemiotic translation, media, mode, multimodal text, multimodality, translation.