A multimodal approach to challenging gender stereotypes in children's picture books / edited by A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro and Eija Ventola. - New York : Routledge, 2021. - 1 online resource. - 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"--

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Children's literature--History and criticism.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Picture books for children.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics

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