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

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality discourse analysis social semiotics and children's literature.</p> <p><i><b>Chapters 1 & 8 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.</b></i></p>