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Contemporary childrens picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying verbal text. This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of multimodal discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of childrens earliest literature. Reading Visual Narratives uses the principles of systemic-functional theory to organise an explicit account of visual meaning in relation to three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters (ideational meaning), the visual positioning of the reader through choices related to focalisation and appraisal (interpersonal meaning) and the discourse organization of visual meanings through choices in framing and composition (textual meaning).

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9781781791011

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Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty, professionals, and practitioners. Choice, Vol 50.11 Overall, Reading Visual Narrativesis an important contribution to the field of social semiotics, in general, and to the study of visual-verbal narratives in children's picture books, in particular. Painter et al. have produced a work that is (almost) as fascinating as the material upon which it is based. LinguistList, June 2013

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Clare Painter is Honorary Associate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Len Unsworth is Professor in Education at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

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