Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis

This study is a critical discourse analysis that investigated multimodal representations of gender in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines. It explored how some linguistic and visual elements create and represent gendered-identities in children's storybooks....

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Main Author: Ramos, Ernesto, Jr.
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:etd_masteral-102272022-03-31T08:32:29Z Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis Ramos, Ernesto, Jr. This study is a critical discourse analysis that investigated multimodal representations of gender in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines. It explored how some linguistic and visual elements create and represent gendered-identities in children's storybooks. It also investigated how ideologies on gender are realized through linguistic and visual representations of females and males in children's storybooks published in the Philippines. Results showed that linguistic and visual gender markers helped create gendered-identities in the storybooks. These gender markers were also found to convey overt and covert ideologies on gender. Gendered-identities in the storybooks were also represented through traditional stereotypes. Finally, stereotypes, inclusion, exclusion, foregrounding, and backgrounding of female and male represented participants in the children's storybooks expressed and realized in the texts the pervasive ideology that tends to downgrade, marginalize, and exclude women. 2006-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3389 https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/10227/viewcontent/CDTG004067_P.pdf Master's Theses English Animo Repository Children--Books and reading Children's stories Gender identity--Philippines Gender identity in literature English Language and Literature
institution De La Salle University
building De La Salle University Library
continent Asia
country Philippines
Philippines
content_provider De La Salle University Library
collection DLSU Institutional Repository
language English
topic Children--Books and reading
Children's stories
Gender identity--Philippines
Gender identity in literature
English Language and Literature
spellingShingle Children--Books and reading
Children's stories
Gender identity--Philippines
Gender identity in literature
English Language and Literature
Ramos, Ernesto, Jr.
Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis
description This study is a critical discourse analysis that investigated multimodal representations of gender in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines. It explored how some linguistic and visual elements create and represent gendered-identities in children's storybooks. It also investigated how ideologies on gender are realized through linguistic and visual representations of females and males in children's storybooks published in the Philippines. Results showed that linguistic and visual gender markers helped create gendered-identities in the storybooks. These gender markers were also found to convey overt and covert ideologies on gender. Gendered-identities in the storybooks were also represented through traditional stereotypes. Finally, stereotypes, inclusion, exclusion, foregrounding, and backgrounding of female and male represented participants in the children's storybooks expressed and realized in the texts the pervasive ideology that tends to downgrade, marginalize, and exclude women.
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author Ramos, Ernesto, Jr.
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title Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis
title_short Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis
title_full Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis
title_fullStr Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis
title_full_unstemmed Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis
title_sort multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the philippines: a critical discourse analysis
publisher Animo Repository
publishDate 2006
url https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3389
https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/10227/viewcontent/CDTG004067_P.pdf
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