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Tytuł publikacji grupowej:

Token

Współtwórca:

Newman, John G. Ed. ; Dossena, Marina. Ed. ; Shvanyukova, Polina. Ed. ; Bianchi, Francesca. Guest ed. ; Bruti, Silvia. Guest ed. ; Cappelli, Gloria. Guest ed. ; Manca, Elena. Guest ed.

Abstrakt:

This study applies the notion of popularization to assess how the Covid-19 pandemic is explained to young children. The analysis is carried out on two corpora: texts providing advice to parents on how to talk to their children about Covid-19, and texts aimed directly at children. The research is informed by studies on specialized knowledge dissemination, medical and scientific popularization and health literacy, contributing to the growing body of research on popularization to children. All corpora contain texts in English, with smaller subcorpora of Italian and Russian texts to provide contrastive remarks, where applicable. The findings focus on definitions of key concepts and on their metaphorical framing, including reliance on the pre-existing knowledge of children realized through similes. The quality of popularized materials for children (and their caregivers) is problematized on account of several misconceptions introduced in definitions. Finally, it is argued that personification is the most frequent and distinctive strategy of popularization to children, as opposed to texts targeting their parents relying on a wider range of popularizing strategies, and could be added as a separate category to the existing theoretical framework.

Spis treści:

Spis treści Francesca Bianchi, Silvia Bruti, Gloria C appelli and Elena Manca, Introduction 5 Elena Manca and Cinzia Spinzi, A cross-cultural study of the popularization of environmental issues for a young audience in digital spaces 19 Silvia Bruti, Ecology for children: Examples from popularizing texts in English and Italian 47 Katia Peruzzo, Empowering children: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its English and Italian child-friendly versions 71 Gianmarco Vignozzi, Kids in the House: How the U.S. House of R epresentatives addresses youngsters 97 Silvia Cacchiani, What is Copyright? Communicating specialized knowledge on CBBC 125 Olga Denti and Giuliana Diani, “Hello, my name is Coronavirus”: Popularizing COVID-19 for children and teenagers 151 Jekaterina Nikitina, Popularizing the Covid-19 pandemic to young children online: A case study 181 Silvia Masi, Disseminating knowledge through TED Talks for children 211 Francesca Bianchi and Elena Manca, Rewriting novels for a young audience: A corpus-assisted comparison between two versions of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 239 Judith Turnbull, Popularizing diversity for children in videos on YouTube 259 Gloria Cappelli, Linguistics for children: The intermodal presentation of English grammar metalanguage in materials for young learners 287 Maria Elisa Fina, Popularizing art for children at the MoMA: A multimodal analysis of the audio-delivered pictorial descriptions 319 Annalisa Sezzi, An intergalactic journey to the popularization of modern art in museum-based websites for children 343

Miejsce wydania:

Kielce

Opis fizyczny:

s. 181-210

Uwagi:

Special issue on popularisation, dissemination and rewriting for young audiences

ISSN:

2299-5900

Wydawca:

Jan Kochanowski University Press

Data wydania:

2022

Identyfikator:

doi:10.25951/9750

Język:

angielski

Jest częścią:

Token : A Journal of English Linguistics

Typ:

tekst

Format:

application/pdf