A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books (Routledge Studies in Multimodality). This item is unavailable.A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books (Routledge Studies in Multimodality)

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.

A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro is Full Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Education, at University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Eija Ventola, now Emerita Professor, was previously Full Professor of International Business Communication at Aalto University, Business School, Finland.