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

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 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2022
Editors:	A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro • Eija Ventola
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	310
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-70361-5
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-367-70361-0
Barcode:	9780367703615

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