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Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University
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Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
10.22099/jcls.2024.48602.2011
Abstract
Children’s literature plays an important role in shaping children’s character by means of affecting their values and beliefs. Since every text has its own ideologies, critical analyses of children's literature can provide researchers with an understanding on the ideologies behind the texts and their possible effect on forming children's values. The present study has taken a critical approach in analyzing the discourse of children’s (age range 7-9 years old) story books published by the Iranian Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) based on the socio-semantic framework proposed by Van Leeuwen. The components analyzed include representation of social actors, social actions, and the way social acts are legitimated. To this end, 15 stories published by IIDCYA were selected by convenient sampling and analyzed. The results showed that social actors were represented more by nomination and less by their social or occupational roles. Also, the occupational roles used in the stories were stereotypically associated with men. The analysis of social actions revealed that material and semiotic actions outnumbered other types of actions including perceptive, affective, and especially cognitive actions. The higher uses of material and semiotic actions indicated the existence of a dynamic and communicative-interactive atmosphere in the stories, while the minimum uses of cognitive actions were interpreted as indicating the dominance of cliches denying children’s thoughtful action capabilities. Besides, legitimation strategies of social actions in children’s books were diverse including authorization, rationalization, and moral evaluations of which instrumental rationalization was the most frequent strategy. The article concludes with implications of these findings and recommendations for authorship of children’s literature
Golshaie, R., & Bazmi, S. (2024). A Critical Discourse Analysis of Children’s Story Books Based on Van Leeuwen’s Socio-Semantic Framework. Iranian Children's Literature Studies, (), -. doi: 10.22099/jcls.2024.48602.2011
MLA
Ramin Golshaie; Sima Bazmi. "A Critical Discourse Analysis of Children’s Story Books Based on Van Leeuwen’s Socio-Semantic Framework". Iranian Children's Literature Studies, , , 2024, -. doi: 10.22099/jcls.2024.48602.2011
HARVARD
Golshaie, R., Bazmi, S. (2024). 'A Critical Discourse Analysis of Children’s Story Books Based on Van Leeuwen’s Socio-Semantic Framework', Iranian Children's Literature Studies, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22099/jcls.2024.48602.2011
VANCOUVER
Golshaie, R., Bazmi, S. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Children’s Story Books Based on Van Leeuwen’s Socio-Semantic Framework. Iranian Children's Literature Studies, 2024; (): -. doi: 10.22099/jcls.2024.48602.2011
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