Linguistic Representations of Gender in Children's Literature - 9783031766619

Linguistic Representations of Gender in Children's LiteratureFeeling, Speaking, Doing\nAuthor(s): Sally Hunt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031766619, 978-3031766619\nSynopsis\nThis book examines how aspects of gender and identity are represented in some of the best-selling children's book series published in English over the last 100 years. Combining the quantitative methods of corpus linguistics with Critical Discourse Analytic interpretation, the author's analysis shows how gendered constructions of identity are built on uneven patterns of [url] and the characters who inhabit them, not only provide child readers with entertainment, but also the building blocks of their identities: linguistic choices construct representations of how to be a girl or how to be a boy, often in binary, mutually exclusive terms. Hunt's critical corpus linguistic approachuncovers patterns of representation beyond .