Full Description
This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children's picturebooks. The chapters presented have benefitted from theories such as multimodal social semiotics, systemic-functional multimodal discourse analysis, computer assisted discourse analysis, multimodal critical discourse analysis, cognitive approaches, and conceptual metaphor.
The book highlights the affordances of a multimodal approach in illuminating how texts and illustrations do joint semiotic work to encourage young readers' understanding of the difficulties faced by young migrants and thus help young migrants make sense of new languages and settings. The volume foregrounds the importance of critical perspectives in analysing visual narratives of migration in children's picture books, examining both successful and less successful examples of this joint semiotic work at play and in turn, suggestions for improvements for the future. The book makes the case for multimodal perspectives on migration in children's picture books toward promoting equality, diversity, and social acceptance of young migrants and the integration of migration issues in early childhood education.
This volume will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, discourse analysis, social semiotics, children's literature, and early childhood education.
Contents
1. Introduction. Picturebooks on Migration and Migrants. Multimodal Perspectives. (Carmen Santamaría-García and Eija Ventola)., Part I: Home(land), Identity and Otherness in Processes of Migration, 2. A Visual Study of the Representation of Migrants as 'The Others' in a Sample of Picturebooks about Migration (María Martínez Lirola)., 3. Representations of Ourselves: A Blanket of Visual Tools in Picture Books on Migration (Coral Calvo-Maturana)., 4. Building Stories of Value and Identity: Pragmatic Inferences in Children's Picturebooks about Migration (Laura Alba-Juez)., 5. 'Home is Within': 'Home' and 'Identity' in Picturebooks about Migration (María Bîrlea, Izaskun Elorza and Mark McGlashan).,Part II: Memories and Emotions in Picturebooks on Migration, 6. Picturebooks Broaching the Emotional Trauma of Child War Refugees: A Systemic Functional Semiotic Analysis (Len Unsworth)., 7. A Systemic Functional Analysis and Comparison of Two 'Picturebook Journeys' (Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen and Francisco O. D. Veloso)., 8. Visual Metonymies of Fear in Picturebooks about Latin American Migration to the U. S. (Agata Żelachowska and Izaskun Elorza)., Part III: Interaction, Engagement, Solidarity and Acceptance of Diversity, 9. A Multimodal Analysis of Character-Reader Interaction in Three Picturebooks on Migration (Arsenio Jesús Moya-Guijarro and Carmen Santamaría-García)., 10. A Difficult Journey towards the Unknown: A Visual Analysis of the Trajectory of Migrants Seeking for Solidarity (Verônica Pereira Coitinho Constanty and Viviane Heberle)., Part IV: Picturebooks on Migration: Socialisation and Education, 11. What Makes a Good Picturebook about Migration and how Can Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis Help us Find the Answer? (Theresa Catalano and Xiaoyan Gu)., 12. Challenging our Stance toward Migrant Children as Language Learners. (Kathy G. Short)., Index
