A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books

A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro (Curatore)

Eija Ventola (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021

This collection offers a thorough treatment of the ways in which the verbal and visual semiotic modes interrelate toward promoting gender equality and social inclusion in children’s picture books. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work in multimodality, including multimodal cognitive linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, and visual social semiotics, the book expands on descriptive-oriented studies to offer a more linguistically driven perspective on children’s picture books. The volume explores the choice afforded to and the lexico-semantic and discursive strategies employed by writers and illustrators in conveying representational, interpersonal, and textual meanings in the verbal and non-verbal components in these narratives in order to challenge gender stereotypes and promote the social inclusion of same-sex parent families. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality, discourse analysis, social semiotics, and children’s literature. Chapters 1, 8 and 9 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.

• Curatore: A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro, Eija Ventola
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Multimodality
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 310 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9780367703592

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