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

Bys: Arsenio Jes?s Moya Guijarro and Eija Ventola

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367703599
• ISBN13: 9780367703592
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"