A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books

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 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.