A Contrastive Analysis of Interpersonal Meaning of English and Chinese Children’s Picture Books from a Multimodal Perspective —Taking My Mom and 12 Moms as Examples
This study adopts the framework of visual narrative and selects two picture books, My Mom and 12 Moms, with the same theme as research objects. Through in-depth analysis using quantitative and qualitative methods, this research examines the construction of multimodal interpersonal meaning in Chinese and English children’s picture books on the theme of mom. It particularly emphasizes the similarities and differences of the two types of picture books in three subsystems and explores how picture books facilitate the realization of interpersonal meaning through relationships between images. The study reveals divergences and similarities between English and Chinese picture books concerning focalization, pathos and ambience between English and Chinese picture books, which highlights the merit of mutual reference between English and Chinese picture books.