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EJ567293 CS755627
Title: How Picture Books Work: A Semiotically Framed Theory of Text-Picture Relationships.
Author(s): Sipe, Lawrence R.
Source: Children's Literature in Education, v29 n2 p97-108 Jun 1998
Publication Date: 1998
ISSN: 0045-6713
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJFEB1999
Investigates the complexities of reading books that use more than one sign system. Presents a theory of text/picture relations based on"transmediation." Provides an overview of the various ways in which the relationship between the words and pictures in a picture book has been conceptualized. Draws on several theoretical traditions and disciplines to describe this. (PA)
Descriptors: *Literary Criticism; *Picture Books; *Semiotics
Identifiers: Literary Theory; *Picture Text Relationship
