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The presentation examines the history of the translations of Dante's Divine Comedy in Japan.

Online platforms allow the instantaneous circulation of media content on a global scale, and geographically fragmented audiences of media content circulated through such platforms engage with the same content at their convenience.

This talk will explore the usage of cross-cultural socio-pragmatic primitives in the multimodal discourse analysis of East Asian texts.