College Composition and Communication Jun 2025

Transduction and the Conceptual Overlap between Multimodality and Transfer

Matthew Halm

Abstract

Exploring multimodality and transfer from the perspective of transduction (a multidisciplinary term that describes a change in form as something moves from one state to another) reveals conceptual overlap between the two concepts. Transfer is fundamentally multimodal because anything moving from one “place” to the next must change its form (or modality) in some way. Multimodality also inherently involves a transfer from one context to another. Each concept requires that existing content or knowledge be changed in some way to account for new situations. Multimodality and transfer do not describe a one-to-one duplication, but a transduction, changing form from one context to the next.

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College Composition and Communication
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2025-06-01
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10.58680/ccc2025764518
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