Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children’s Picture Books - Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books - Clare Painter

Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children’s Picture Books - Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books - Clare Painter

Enacting Social Relations

Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children’s Picture Books - Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books - Clare Painter

Clare Painter [+-]
University of Sydney
Clare Painter is Honorary Associate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.
J.R. Martin [+-]
University of Sydney
J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics.
Len Unsworth [+-]
Australian Catholic University
Len Unsworth is Professor in Education at Australian Catholic University. He has been a chief investigator on five Australian Research Council funded projects since 2005 including two ARC Linkage Projects with the NSW Department of Education and Training and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation as industry partners. Len’s publications include Literacy Learning and Teaching (Macmillan, 1993), Researching Language in Schools and Communities (Continuum, 2000), Teaching Multiliteracies across the Curriculum [with Angela Thomas, Alyson Simpson and Jenny Asha] (Open University Press, 2001), Teaching Children’s Literature with Information and Communication Technologies (McGraw-Hill/Open University Press 2005), E-literature for Children and Classroom Literacy Learning (Routledge, 2006), New Literacies and the English Curriculum (Continuum, 2008) and Multimodal Semiotics (Continuum, 2008).

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This chapter will focus on five further systems relevant to interpersonal meaning: those of focalisation, affect, pathos, ambience and graduation. ocalisation is a reinterpretation and elaboration of Kress and van Leeuwen’s system of contact, and, like affect and pathos, it is very much concerned with the depiction of characters in the stories. ambience, in part a reinterpretation of Kress and van Leeuwen’s system of modality, is primarily concerned with the depiction of settings and the use of colour to create a mood. graduation is a term borrowed from SFL work on appraisal (Martin and White, 2005) to refer to strategies for intensifying gradable interpersonal meanings. Topics include: 2.1 Interpersonal meaning; 2.2 focalisation; 2.3 pathos and affect; 2.4 ambience; 2.5 graduation; 2.6 Visual interpersonal meaning in The Tinpot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman

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Painter, Clare ; Martin, J.R.; Unsworth, Len . Enacting Social Relations. Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children’s Picture Books - Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 15-52 Jan 2013. ISBN 9781781791011. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=19873. Date accessed: 19 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.19873. Jan 2013

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