Stylistics and children’s literature

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Language and Literature Pub Date : 2022-01-13 DOI:10.1177/09639470211072153
M. Burke, Karen Coats
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This article constitutes an introduction to the five articles that appear in this special issue. This framing process starts by highlighting the sparse, yet important, work that has been conducted over the past 20 years on children’s literature in the field of stylistics. The focus in the article then turns to a more general discussion of the language of children’s literature. Here, in this chronological overview of language usage in books written for children, an outline is sketched from the writers and philosophers of the enlightenment up to contemporary debates on literacy, cognition and theory of mind. In the section that follows, the five studies that appear in this special issue are briefly synopsized. What becomes apparent is the wide range of methodological approaches that have been taken by the scholars in question to analyze the texts that are under investigation, in both quantitative and qualitative ways. The article ends with a plea for more stylistic work to be conducted in the areas of both children’s literature and young adult fiction. This is especially pertinent because stylisticians possess the key linguistic and analytic skills and tools to help, in interdisciplinary settings, to address current social, emotional and cognitive challenges pertaining to child development through literacy and through reading in particular.
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文体学与儿童文学
这篇文章是对本期特刊中五篇文章的介绍。这一框架过程首先突出了过去20年文体学领域关于儿童文学的稀疏但重要的工作。然后,文章的重点转向对儿童文学语言的更一般的讨论。在这里,按时间顺序概述儿童读物中的语言使用,概述了启蒙运动时期的作家和哲学家到当代关于读写、认知和心智理论的辩论。在接下来的部分中,将简要介绍本期特刊中出现的五项研究。显而易见的是,所讨论的学者采用了广泛的方法论方法,以定量和定性的方式分析正在调查的文本。文章最后呼吁在儿童文学和青少年小说领域开展更多的文体工作。这是特别相关的,因为文体师拥有关键的语言和分析技能和工具,可以在跨学科的环境中帮助解决当前与儿童发展有关的社会、情感和认知挑战,特别是通过识字和阅读。
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期刊介绍: Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.
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