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

Moya-Guijarro, A. Jesús (Editor)/ Ventola, Eija (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0367703610 / ISBN 13: 9780367703615

Published by Routledge, 2023

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334 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.76 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children s Picture Books
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367703610
• ISBN 13: 9780367703615
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.62 kilograms

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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.

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.

About the Author

A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro is Full Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Education, at University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Eija Ventola, now Emerita Professor, was previously Full Professor of International Business Communication at Aalto University, Business School, Finland.