Multimodal Mediation through Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives

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Sandie Mourão is a research fellow at Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she investigates early language learning and picturebooks, and coordinates the 'Language teacher education and curriculum studies' research strand.

Karen Bennett is Associate Professor of Translation at Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she coordinates not only the Master's programme in Translation, but also the 'Translationality' research strand at the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS).

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This collection critically examines the notion of mediation as it manifests itself at the intersection of multimodal literature, education, and translation studies, bringing together perspectives from established and early career scholars.

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Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Mediating worlds

Karen Bennett and Sandie Mourão

Chapter 1. From Notebook to Accordion Book: Materiality in three Contemporary Chinese Picturebooks

Lichung Yang

Chapter 2. Being the 'bug' in the system: Diegetic and structural mechanisms of exclusion in Tan's picturebook Cicada

Marvin Madeheim

Chapter 3. How should we say goodbye: Multimodal metaphors of death in Chinese children's picturebooks

Xi Chen

Chapter 4. Exploring the picturebook as an intersemiotic translation: Tropes of visual language in I. Chmielewska's reworking of J. Korczak's King Matt I

Joanna Dybiec-Gajer

Chapter 5. No man of woman will harm Macbeth: Illustration, Language, Translation, and Adaptation in Selfmadehero's Manga Shakespeare

John Milton

Chapter 6. Re-narrating the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Two Translations of Footnotes in Gaza

Hind Ben Salama

Chapter 7. Creating safe spaces in contexts of complex emergency through mediation and picturebooks

Evelyn Arizpe, Julie McAdam and Lavinia Hirsu

Chapter 8. Once Upon a Time: Gender and STEM depictions in Portuguese Children's Literature

Andreia Nunes

Chapter 9. Wimmelbooks: Authentic materials to foster second language acquisition

Mariona Masgrau Juanola and Karo Kunde

Chapter 10. Multimodal literacy learning in The Big Word Factory: Exploring a Trilingual Picturebook App with Bilingual Student Teachers

Esa Christine Hartmann

Chapter 11. Multimodal Orchestration in Read-Aloud Performances: Mediating Non-Fiction Picturebooks in English as an Additional Language

Elisa Bertoldi

Chapter 12. Developing Student Teachers' Awareness of Multimodal Features Through Task-Based Activities Around Picturebooks

Annett Kaminski

Index