Date of Publication

2006

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in English Language Education

Subject Categories

English Language and Literature

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

English and Applied Linguistics

Thesis Adviser

Danilo T. Dayag

Defense Panel Chair

Remedios Z. Miciano

Defense Panel Member

Leonisa A. Mojica
Corazon V. Balarbar

Abstract/Summary

This study is a critical discourse analysis that investigated multimodal representations of gender in ten best-selling children's storybooks published in the Philippines. It explored how some linguistic and visual elements create and represent gendered-identities in children's storybooks. It also investigated how ideologies on gender are realized through linguistic and visual representations of females and males in children's storybooks published in the Philippines. Results showed that linguistic and visual gender markers helped create gendered-identities in the storybooks. These gender markers were also found to convey overt and covert ideologies on gender. Gendered-identities in the storybooks were also represented through traditional stereotypes. Finally, stereotypes, inclusion, exclusion, foregrounding, and backgrounding of female and male represented participants in the children's storybooks expressed and realized in the texts the pervasive ideology that tends to downgrade, marginalize, and exclude women.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Electronic

Accession Number

CDTG004067

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

1 computer optical disc ; 4 3/4 in.

Keywords

Children--Books and reading; Children's stories; Gender identity--Philippines; Gender identity in literature

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