Language and Control in Children's Literature
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A01=Kirsten Malmkjaer
A01=Murray Knowles
Adventure Story
Author_Kirsten Malmkjaer
Author_Murray Knowles
brown's
Captain Lancaster
Carnegie Medal
Carrie's War
Carrie’s War
Category=C
Category=DSA
Category=DSB
Category=DSY
Clause Complex
colonial discourse studies
Coral Island
Descriptive Focus
discourse analysis
edith
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
fairy
fantasy
fiction
Frequent Collocate
Happy Prince
Human Beans
ideological critique
language ideology in children's books
Light Princess
literary
Literary Fairytale
Masterman Ready
Miss Honey
Miss Trunchbull
Misselthwaite Manor
Modern Children's Fiction
Modern Children's Literature
narrative authority
nesbit
power relations in texts
School Stories
schooldays
Selfish Giant
Semantic Prosodies
sociolinguistics
tale
tom
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Traditional Fairytale
Victorian Corpus
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415086240
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study examines the work of children's writers from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to expose the persuasive power of language. Looking at the work of 19th century English writers of juvenile fiction, Knowles and Malmkjaer expose the colonial and class assumptions on which the books were predicated. In the modern teen novel and the work of Roald Dahl the authors find contemporary attempts to control children within socially established frameworks. Other authors discussed include, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis.
Murray Knowles lectures in Applied English Linguistics at the Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham.
Kirsten Malmkjxr is Assistant Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics. Her previous publications include The LinguisticsEncyclopedia (Routledge, 1991).
