Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader: Developing Metalinguistic Awareness
Anne Plummer
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Description for Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader: Developing Metalinguistic Awareness
Hardcover. Deals with picturebooks and novels which play on words and/or images in the same way that children play in games of make-believe, this book employs transparent strategies which serve simultaneously to draw attention to the making of textual meaning and to disclose the processes by which those meanings are made. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JNLA; JNLB; JNU; YQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 422.
This book is about playful texts - picturebooks and novels which play on words and/or images in the same way that children play in games of make-believe, transforming the everyday world of common sense meaning into a self-reflexive playworld which works to disclose, and subvert, the rules which sustain it. Taking their cues from the metacommunicative dimension of make-believe play, the texts employ transparent strategies which serve simultaneously to draw attention to the making of textual meaning and to disclose the processes by which those meanings are made. Playful texts specialise in multiple storylines, unreliable narrators, language play and ... Read more
This book is about playful texts - picturebooks and novels which play on words and/or images in the same way that children play in games of make-believe, transforming the everyday world of common sense meaning into a self-reflexive playworld which works to disclose, and subvert, the rules which sustain it. Taking their cues from the metacommunicative dimension of make-believe play, the texts employ transparent strategies which serve simultaneously to draw attention to the making of textual meaning and to disclose the processes by which those meanings are made. Playful texts specialise in multiple storylines, unreliable narrators, language play and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781791189
SKU
V9781781791189
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Ref
99-15
About Anne Plummer
After working for Australian State and Federal governments in environmental protection and social policy, Anne Plummer changed direction to qualify as a teacher with the Association Montessori Internationale. She has worked extensively with children in primary classrooms and individually. Her research interests include Montessori grammatics, childrens literature, and the ontogenesis of literary reading.
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