The centrality of conceptual metaphors to a reading of characters’ thoughts and feelings in Shaun Tan’s picturebooks |

Markus Johannes Oppolzer

The centrality of conceptual metaphors to a reading of characters’ thoughts and feelings in Shaun Tan’s picturebooks |

Titel in Übersetzung: Die Bedeutung von Konzeptmetaphern für eine Interpretation der Gedanken und Gefühle von Charakteren in Shaun Tans Bilderbüchern

Markus Johannes Oppolzer

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Konferenzband/Gesetzeskommentar › Kapitel in einem Sammelband › Forschung › Peer-reviewed

Abstract

This chapter introduces basic principles of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) to
showcase how crossover picturebooks manage to cater to a much broader readership by visualising mature themes in such a way that they become equally accessible to young adult readers. While visual metaphors can help to externalize the feelings, moods, and mental states of characters by translating them into readable signs such as body codes, they also grant artists a creative design space to explore human afflictions via complex multimodal compositions. Shaun Tan’s highly successful picturebooks serve as illustrations of CMT’s compatibility with established categories of visual analysis, of the artist’s personal preferences that find expression in recurring patterns and themes, but also of how CMT can help to foster the visual literacy of older learners.

Titel in Übersetzung	Die Bedeutung von Konzeptmetaphern für eine Interpretation der Gedanken und Gefühle von Charakteren in Shaun Tans Bilderbüchern
Originalsprache	Englisch
Titel	Re-thinking Picturebooks for Intermediate and Advanced Learners
Untertitel	Perspectives for Secondary English Language Education
Redakteure/-innen	Grit Alter, Thorsten Merse
Erscheinungsort	Tübingen
Herausgeber (Verlag)	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Kapitel	2
Seiten	59-80
Seitenumfang	22
Auflage	1.
ISBN (elektronisch)	978-3-8233-9474-7, 978-3-8233-0382-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-8233-8474-8
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - 27 Nov. 2023

Publikationsreihe

Name	Narr Studienbücher

Schlagwörter

Bilderbuch
Konzeptmetaphern
Shaun Tan
Literaturdidaktik
visual literacy

Systematik der Wissenschaftszweige 2012

602 Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

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Oppolzer, M. J. (2023). The centrality of conceptual metaphors to a reading of characters’ thoughts and feelings in Shaun Tan’s picturebooks |. in G. Alter, & T. Merse (Hrsg.), Re-thinking Picturebooks for Intermediate and Advanced Learners: Perspectives for Secondary English Language Education (1. Aufl., S. 59-80). Artikel 2 (Narr Studienbücher). Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.

Oppolzer, Markus Johannes. / The centrality of conceptual metaphors to a reading of characters’ thoughts and feelings in Shaun Tan’s picturebooks |. Re-thinking Picturebooks for Intermediate and Advanced Learners: Perspectives for Secondary English Language Education. Hrsg. / Grit Alter ; Thorsten Merse. 1. Aufl. Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2023. S. 59-80 (Narr Studienbücher).

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