ABSTRACT
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 https://www.taylorfrancis.com.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|84 pages
Stories Portraying Boys Who Challenge Gender Stereotypes
chapter 2|19 pages
Julián Is a Mermaid. Challenging Gender Stereotypes
part II|78 pages
Picture Books Featuring Princesses and Girls Who Do Not Conform to Female Gender Stereotypes
chapter 6|19 pages
Queering the Princess
chapter 7|18 pages
A Clever Paper Bag Princess, a Fearless Worst Princess and an Empowered Little Red
part III|123 pages
Visual Narratives Portraying and Challenging the Concept of Traditional Family