Australian Research Council Discovery Project
Image/Text Relations in Narrative and Information Texts for Children in Print and Electronic Media
Project Overview
This project focuses on image/text relations in print and electronic materials designed for children in primary school and early secondary school. Both narrative and information texts will be considered. The research is informed by systemic functional linguistic theory and its social semiotic applications to other modalities of communication. To date, the main focus of the project has been on relations between images in narrative picture books. Work on the affective dimension of these relations is currently underway. As this theme nears completion our research is shifting to consideration of the mutually informing relation between words and images in narrative and information texts, including CD-ROM and web based materials. Information texts recontextualising science, history and culture for children are being considered, concentrating on themes from the Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
Research Team
(Top L to R) Talia Gill, Clare Painter, Len Unsworth, Chris Cleirigh, Jim Martin
(Bottom L to R) Ariane Welch, Sumin Zhao
