A corpus stylistics approach to the discourse of adoption in Picture Books: Social uses of multimodal creativity
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This presentation explores the discourse of adoption through an analysis of how adoption is linguistically and visually delineated in a corpus of picture books. The aim is to understand how adoption is portrayed, and what the concerns and viewpoints of the three main participants are: child, adoptive parents, and birth parents, as well as those of the voices that surround them.
The study combines a quantitative and qualitative analysis, in which computer-based software is combined with the closer analysis of the individual texts.
The project lies under the umbrella of the major enterprise of understanding how adoption is conceived, the words and patterns used to talk about it, how it is visually represented, and in what ways these choices depict, challenge, and reshape society’s understanding of parenthood and families.
Dr Coral Calvo Maturana is English Lecturer at the University of Cádiz in Spain. Her research interests include stylistics, (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and multimodality. Her doctoral thesis: ‘Motherhood and Poetic Voices in The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay: a corpus stylistics study’, resulted in her special interest in the discourse of adoption, and its multimodal representation in both literary and non-literary texts.
Date:
10 August 2016, 13:00 (Wednesday, 16th week, Trinity 2016)
Venue:
Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details:
Centre for Digital Scholarship
Speaker:
Coral Calvo Maturana (UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ)
Organising department:
Bodleian Libraries
Organiser:
Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Part of:
Research Uncovered: public talks on digital scholarship
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2016/08/08/coral-calvo-maturana/
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Pip Willcox
