In this introduction to João Queiroz’s chapter, Jensen provides an overview of the key topics of Queiroz’s text, focusing on giving a background to, and explaining, the concept of ‘intersemiotic translation’. After comparing intersemiotic translation to Elleström’s concept of ‘transmediation’, this chapter briefly explains Charles Sanders Peirce’s concepts of sign, object, and interpretant, as well as the basic ideas of process philosophy and distributed cognition.