The Status Quo and Fronts of Research on Multimodal Translation from the Perspective of Digital Humanities
With the stance of promoting the perspective on digital humanismin translation studies,this study uses CiteSpace,supplemented by quantitative statistics,to examine the status quo and fronts of domestic and interna-tional multimodal translation research over the past two decades.The findings reveal that the number of published articles,domestically and internationally,follows a staggered and synchronous pattern with an overall upward trend.Foreign institutions demonstrate more cross-border collaboration,leading to a broader distribution of disci-plines in their research.While both domestic and international research fronts cover topics such as"teaching and training","discourse dissemination"and"process and mechanism",there is more pronounced interest in acces-sibility-oriented topics abroad.The novel perspectives and objects in international studies better reflect the evolv-ingparadigms in translation studies.Chinese scholars are encouraged to enhance the awareness of cross-discipli-nary cooperation,clarify the conceptual framework of multimodal translation,adopt multimodal approaches in re-search issues across symbolic,sensory and media information types,and contribute to the development of a new multimodal paradigm in translation research.