A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books (Routledge Studies in Multimodality)

Synopsis

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. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

310 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000456066

Related ISBNs:

9780367703592, 9781003145875, 9780367703615

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

06/10/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, A. Jesús Moya Guijarro and Eija Ventola

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Language Arts

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Eija Ventola

Edited by:

A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro