Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China

被引：6
|
作者：
Liang, Jennifer Yameng [1 ]
O'Halloran, Kay [2 ]
Tan, Sabine [2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Sci & Technol Beijing, Beijing, Peoples R China
[2] Curtin Univ, Bentley, WA, Australia
来源：
METAPHOR AND SYMBOL | 2016年 / 31卷 / 03期
关键词：
CARTOONS;
D O I：
10.1080/10926488.2016.1187039
中图分类号：
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号：
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要：
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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页码：179 / 193
页数：15
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