Analysing picture books that challenge gender stereotypes multimodally

Jesús Moya-Guijarro (Author), Eija Ventola (Author)

Abstract

This paper identifies the transitivity strategies used in six picture books that aim to challenge gender stereotypes. They were selected because of the large number of commonalities they share; they are all authentic texts, written in English and were not created for experimental purposes. In addition, the selected stories are intended for children (four to nine years old). The theoretical frameworks adopted are SFL (Halliday 2004) and Visual Social Semiotics (Kress and van Leeuwen 2006, Painter et al. 2013). The findings show that the meaning load carried by embedded images (action plus reaction), together with verbal and mental processes of perception, provides essential cues for fostering progressive gender discourses. The analysis also demonstrates that metonymies are essentially used to highlight important aspects of the plot that challenge gender stereotypes.

Keywords

systemic functional linguistics;visual social semiotics;metonymy;representational meaning;gender stereotypes in picture books;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2023
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Publisher:	Univerzitetna založba Univerze v Mariboru
UDC:	316.647.8:087.5
COBISS:	162065155
ISSN:	1855-4431
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary title:	Analiza slikanic, ki razkrivajo spolne stereotipe večkodno
Secondary abstract:	Članek odkriva strategije prehodnosti, uporabljene v šestih slikanicah, ki razkrivajo spolne stereotipe. Izbrane so bili zaradi mnogih skupnih značilnosti; vsa besedila so verodostojna, napisana v angleščini in niso bila ustvarjena v eksperimentalne namene, izbrane zgodbe so namenjene otrokom (od štirih do devetih let). Uporabljena teoretična okvira sta SFJ (Halliday 2004) in vizualna socialna semiotika (Kress in van Leeuwen 2006, Painter et al. 2013). Ugotovitve kažejo, da pomenska teža vključenih podob (akcija in reakcija) skupaj z verbalnimi in miselnimi procesi zaznavanja zagotavlja bistvene namige za spodbujanje naprednih diskurzov o spolih. Analiza tudi dokazuje, da se metonimije v bistvu uporabljajo za poudarjanje pomembnih vidikov zgodbe, ki razkriva spolne stereotipe.
Secondary keywords:	slikanice;spolni stereotipi;vizualna socialna semiotika;metonimija;
Type (COBISS):	Scientific work
Pages:	str. 9-26
Volume:	ǂLetn. ǂ16
Issue:	posebna št.
Chronology:	jul. 2023
DOI:	10.18690/rei.16.Spec.Iss.2983
ID:	26900958