A Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children: A Systemic Functional Approach Contributor(s): Guijarro, Arsenio Jesus (Author), Moya Guijarro, Arsenio Jesaus (Author) |
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ISBN: 1908049782 ISBN-13: 9781908049780 Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
Dewey: 302.2 |
LCCN: 2014011967 |
Series: Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.01 lbs) 316 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children goes beyond the relation between the representation of reality and language alone; instead, it aims to analyze the intersemiosis between verbal and visual elements in a sample of nine picture books. The chapters included in this book take the most relevant systemic-functional and visual social semiotic theories a step further from previous studies and apply them to the genre of children's tales. Within the frameworks of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics and Kress and van Leeuwen's Visual Social Semiotics, the aim is to identify the verbal and visual strategies available to the writer and illustrator (i) to convey representational meanings, (ii) to set up interpersonal relationships within the tale itself, as well as external relationships between writer and reader and, finally, (iii) to create coherent tales. This is achieved by analyzing and identifying the ideational, interpersonal and textual choices available to the writer to make meaning in picture books, and comparing them with the corresponding representational, interactive and compositional choices made by the illustrator. The analysis reveals how the verbal and visual modalities contribute to each other's meaning and makes the potential of combining verbal and non-verbal language in picture books evident. |