27.389, Books: Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader: Plummer

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:00:20
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader: Plummer

 


Title: Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader 
Subtitle: Developing Metalinguistic Awareness 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/playful-texts-emergent-reader/ 


Author: Anne Plummer

Hardback: ISBN:  9781781791189 Pages: 176 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £60


Abstract:

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 visual games, parodies and
nonsensical lists. We can therefore say that playful texts are essentially
metafictive texts: texts which encourage young readers to reflect on the
meaning-making procedures of narrative fiction. This process, it is argued,
enhances cognitive development in a number of vital areas, especially in the
area of metalinguistic awareness – the ability to identify and talk about the
properties of language that is so critically important in the development of
language and literacy skills.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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