Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China
This study examines the types of verbal, pictorial, and multimodal metaphors in the genre of sex education picture books for young children in Mainland China. Although being an educational discourse genre that is essentially concerned with transmitting scientific facts, sex education picture books e...
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| description | This study examines the types of verbal, pictorial, and multimodal metaphors in the genre of sex education picture books for young children in Mainland China. Although being an educational discourse genre that is essentially concerned with transmitting scientific facts, sex education picture books employ a range of metaphors that categorize and construe the biological knowledge of human reproduction in a way that not only facilitates young children’s understanding of scientific concepts but also instills in them particular values and moralities that are socioculturally conditioned. An examination of the source domains from which the metaphors are drawn and the target domains onto which the metaphors are mapped reveals three types of metaphor, namely, personification, domestication, and cross-experience metaphors. The analysis of seven sex education picture books for pre-school children suggests that these types of metaphor are used purposefully for addressing pedagogical as well as ideological concerns in the introduction of sex-related knowledge in Mainland China. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-421732017-09-13T15:48:12Z Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China Yameng Liang, J. O'Halloran, K. Tan, Sabine This study examines the types of verbal, pictorial, and multimodal metaphors in the genre of sex education picture books for young children in Mainland China. Although being an educational discourse genre that is essentially concerned with transmitting scientific facts, sex education picture books employ a range of metaphors that categorize and construe the biological knowledge of human reproduction in a way that not only facilitates young children’s understanding of scientific concepts but also instills in them particular values and moralities that are socioculturally conditioned. An examination of the source domains from which the metaphors are drawn and the target domains onto which the metaphors are mapped reveals three types of metaphor, namely, personification, domestication, and cross-experience metaphors. The analysis of seven sex education picture books for pre-school children suggests that these types of metaphor are used purposefully for addressing pedagogical as well as ideological concerns in the introduction of sex-related knowledge in Mainland China. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42173 10.1080/10926488.2016.1187039 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Yameng Liang, J. O'Halloran, K. Tan, Sabine Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China |
| title | Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China |
| title_full | Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China |
| title_fullStr | Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China |
| title_short | Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China |
| title_sort | where do i come from? metaphors in sex education picture books for young children in china |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42173 |