ABSTRACT
The analytical tools used by researchers in this book to analyze visual images use conceptual frames and tools drawn from the work of Painter, Martin and Unsworth (2013), whose work, in turn, is based in Kress and van Leeuwen, and Halliday. Painter introduces three metafunctions and provides tables to show the tools within these metafunctions. The major metafunction used by the researchers is interpersonal meaning and enacting social relations in illustrations through the tools of focalizations, pathos and affect, ambience, and graduation. Other metafunctions include ideational meaning and textual meaning as construing representations and composing visual space. This chapter establishes the conceptual frame for analysis of visual images in picturebooks, and the researchers define and discuss the specific analytical tools used within their studies in their chapters.
