Arsenio Jesús Moya Guijarro

Spanish National Research Council | CSIC · Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos

This paper aims to explore the interpersonal choices afforded to the writer/illustrator in creating engagement between the reader/viewer and the represented participants (RPs) of the picture book Gorilla by Anthony Browne. The analytical tools applied in this study are Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar and Kress and van Leeuwen's Visual Social...

Resumen. La representación de personajes masculinos en tres libros álbum desafiantes. Un estudio multimodal. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar cómo las metonimias visuales contribuyen a retar estereotipos de género en tres libros álbum. La semiótica social multimodal (Kress & van Leewen, 2006; Painter, Martin & Unsworth, 2013), y la lingüíst...

The main aim of this article is to identify the visual and verbal strategies that authors and illustrators display in five picture books featuring children who do not conform to traditional masculine gender stereotypes. The theoretical framework adopted for the multimodal analysis is Systemic-Functional Social Semiotics. After identifying the verba...

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 s...

The aim of this article is to identify the inter-circumstantial relations and locations where the female characters of six picture books that challenge gender stereotypes evolve. To this aim, we analyzed whether the female characters always appear in the same settings in successive illustrations or, on the contrary, whether new locations, which det...

Verbal metaphor and also metonymy have been theorized from a conceptual perspective since Lakoff and Johnson published Metaphors we live by in the 1980s. However, the final years of the twentieth century saw a new approach into non-verbal monomodal or multimodal tropes ( Forceville & Urios-Aparisi, 2009 ). In an attempt to expand upon the theorizat...

Esta obra colectiva, profundiza en historias que promueven la inclusión social de familias homoparentales integradas por niño/as y dos padres o dos madres, así como historias que reflejan a personajes masculinos y femeninos que bien rompen con estereotipos de género, o bien no se adaptan a los estereotipos masculinos o femeninos que se espera de el...

Este artículo pretende identificar las estrategias visuales que a nivel circunstancial (metafunción representativa) utilizan autores e ilustradores de tres libros álbum para fomentar un discurso de género progresista. Los cuentos seleccionados para su análisis son The Paper Bag Princess de Robert Musch y Michael Martchenko (2015), Piggybook de Anth...

This article aims to examine how visual metonymies, in combination with verbal language, contribute to the representation of characters in a sample of six picture books written and illustrated by Anthony Browne and intended for children in two different age groups: 0–6 year-olds (also known as early readers) and children over six years of age. Soci...

The main aim of this article is to study the communicative functions of visual metonymies in a sample of picture books written and illustrated by Anthony Browne, an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator of children’s books. The three tales selected for analysis are Voices in the Park, Gorilla and Piggybook, all of which have been highly...

In recent years there has been a positive change in the perception about bilingualism reflected in the increasing number of citizens demanding bilingual education. In this way, bilingualism constitutes a key element of opportunities (Salis 2002: 43) for any member of society regardless of their economic situation (García 2009: 11). For this reason,...

This paper presents a conceptual proposal for Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) and its practical tool as a remedy to the deficiencies detected in a quantitative quality assessment tool developed at the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission: the Quality Assessment Tool (QAT). The new theoretical model, the Function...

This paper aims to explore how the use of semiotic metaphors in picture books contributes to children's understanding of the stories. The three picture books selected for analysis were written during the twentieth century and respond to a standard of literary quality: Guess How Much I Love You (1994), Where the Wild Things Are (1963) and Gorilla (1...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the postmodern picturebook Princess Smartypants, written and illustrated by Babette Cole, taking into account the relationship between the words and the images and the incongruities posed not only between the text and the images but also between this tale and other fairytales. Generic conventions, background know...

This article aims to explore how the use of visual metonymies in picture books contributes to children’s understanding of stories and, in turn, attracts their attention towards relevant aspects of the plot. The two picture books selected for analysis are Gorilla, by Browne and The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Potter, intended for children under 9 years...

This study attempts to carry out an analysis of the interpersonal meanings conveyed by the verbal and the visual modes of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, while exploring the choices afforded to Beatrix Potter in creating engagement between the viewer / reader and the (represented) participants of the tale. The analytical tools employed in this study are...

Within the framework of systemic functional linguistics, this paper aims to analyze the thematic structure of twenty children's storybooks in the English language in relation to four Piagetian-based stages of cognitive development: the sensory-motor stage, the pre-operational stage, and two stages of concrete operations. The analysis confirms the t...

Based mainly on Kress and van Leeuwen's social semiotic analysis and Hallidayan linguistics, this contribution attempts to employ a multimodal analysis of a picture book in order to ascertain the extent to which visual and verbal components create meaning.The textual analysis reveals a strong association between the point of departure of the clause...

El objetivo de este artículo es realizar un análisis multimodal de un álbum ilustrado, basándose en el modelo semiótico de Kress y van Leeuwen y en las categorías de interacción texto / ilustración de Nikolajeva y Scott. El análisis revela un claro predominio de relaciones simétricas, complementarias y de ampliación, que desempeñan una función dete...

Following a functional view of topic as a discourse, cognitive and contextually-referential notion, independent of special language-systematic coding (Cornish 2004), this paper aims to study topic continuity strategies (Givón 1983, 1995; Dik 1997) in news items and tourist brochures. The empirical analysis carried out reveals that the two subgenre...

The aim of this paper is to analyse two different text types within a discourse functional framework, in order to determine whether there is a difference in their formal realizations of new and known topics. This will be done by investigating how introductory and given topics are realized in clause structure in a sample of sixty news items and tour...

This paper aims to study the sentence topic introductory strategies (van Dijk 1981a and b; Givón 1995: Dik 1989; and Downing 1991, 1998) in news items and tourist brochures. The original hypothesis for this research proposes that, because of the characteristics of genre and register of the two subgenres analysed, news items and tourist brochures wi...

El objetivo de este artículo es determinar las diferencias fundamentales que existen en el proceso de adquisición / aprendizaje de la pronunciación, del vocabulario y de las estructuras interrogativas entre niños nativos y aprendices de inglés como lengua extranjera. A la luz de los resultados obtenidos, parece existir un desarrollo similar en el p...

This article will attempt to study the differences in the thematic/topical progression of two subgenres, news items and tourist brochures. The general hypothesis proposed for this research is that the news items and tourist brochures should, according to the characteristics of genre and register, show a significant difference in the location of the...

Se inicia con una reflexión sobre las corrientes metodológicas que definen el proceso de acción del maestro de lenguas extranjeras en el aula de Educación Infantil. En el segundo capítulo se abordan tres interrogantes básicos que deben plantearse para un correcto proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje de las lenguas extranjeras en los primeros años de es...