Journal Study: Ling & Literature

This paper is a review and analysis of a book titled Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books. Although this paper rather dry it has exposed me too many terms I have been unaware of previous to this point. The world of semiotics is unknown to me, this give me something new and interesting to try and understand to see if it has relevance to me. Each chapter deals with various issues of Reading the Visual, Enacting Social Relations or Construing Representations and so on. This book seems to look beyond the mere visuals or words of picture books. Frameworks or systems used to understand such works as picture books may be shown within this book. One thing I had noticed with all students work from previous years honours projects was that they all seemed to be able to construct some for of framework which allowed them to reflect their own project off. This is something I am no where near yet, this type of book may contain some forms of frameworks for constructing or deconstructing picture books. If so then I could use one as a base and build upon, take out what I don't feel is required. Although this paper has little apart from new terms to find out the meanings of, it has led me to this book which I have now ordered to get a better understanding of the topics myself. Extracts from the paper are shown below.