Object

Group publication title:

Token

Contributor:

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.

Abstract:

The aim of this study is to investigate popularization practices in museum communication for children. More specifically, the study proposes a multimodal investigation of twenty audio-delivered pictorial descriptions in English specifically designed for children, available in the official website of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan. The scripts of the pictorial descriptions were retrieved from the website’s dedicated section and annotated by means of QDA Miner Lite according to a set of codes: ‘type of speaker’, ‘speech’, ‘music’, ‘sounds’, and ‘prosody’. Then, they were analyzed from a multimodal perspective in order to identify key popularization strategies, as well as to investigate how the different semiotic resources are combined to enhance children’s art experience. The results show that the encounter with the artwork is shaped as the child’s own discovery, in which observation skills and critical thinking are challenged by means of several popularization strategies. A key role is played by questions and invitations (to observe, to think, etc.), as well as by soundscape in which speech, music and sounds are meaningfully combined to increase listener involvement.

Table of contents:

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

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 319-341

Additional notes:

Special issue on popularisation, dissemination and rewriting for young audiences

ISSN:

2299-5900

Publisher:

Jan Kochanowski University Press

Date issued:

2022

Identifier:

doi:10.25951/9755

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

Token : A Journal of English Linguistics

Type:

tekst

Format:

application/pdf