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Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books (Functional Linguistics)
Clare Painter
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Description for Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books (Functional Linguistics)
Paperback. This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature. Series: Functional Linguistics. Num Pages: 202 pages, 95 figures. BIC Classification: CFC; CFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying verbal text. This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature. Reading Visual Narratives uses the principles of systemic-functional theory to organise an explicit account of visual meaning in relation to three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters (ideational meaning), the visual positioning of the ... Read more
Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying verbal text. This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature. Reading Visual Narratives uses the principles of systemic-functional theory to organise an explicit account of visual meaning in relation to three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters (ideational meaning), the visual positioning of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Functional Linguistics
Condition
New
Weight
316 g
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781791011
SKU
V9781781791011
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Ref
99-2
About Clare Painter
Clare Painter is Honorary Associate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Len Unsworth is Professor in Education at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
Reviews for Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books (Functional Linguistics)
Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty, professionals, and practitioners. Choice, Vol 50.11 Overall, Reading Visual Narrativesis an important contribution to the field of social semiotics, in general, and to the study of visual-verbal narratives in children's picture books, in particular. Painter et al. have produced a work that is (almost) as fascinating as the material upon which it ... Read more