Multimodality in Infant Literature Books and the Education of Reader Teachers

Abstract

This paper presents a part of the results of a Doctorate research on the relations between images and verbal texts in infant literature books and their contribution to the education of teachers. Different discursive resources were found in images and texts in infant literature books towards the construction of the narrative and descriptive dimensions. Bakhtin's concept of style helps providing structure and unity to the enunciated production of the enunciator and indicates the result of a world vision. In the works here analyzed, the relation between image and verbal text presents two fundamental resources: the enunciation, as the power of the narrator in guiding the reading, and intertextuality, as a device to update the plot. This methodology allows the recovering of teachers' reading experiences and indicates the importance of multimodality aspects in the construction of teachers' reading ability.