John Stephens

List of John Benjamins publications for which John Stephens plays a role.

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Stephens, John 1994 Signifying strategies and closed texts in Australian children’s literature Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 17:2, pp. 131–146 | Article
This paper examines children’s literature as discourse and argues that attention to the textuality of children’s literature discloses a network of signifying strategies which serve to confine texts within a narrow band of socio-cultural values. The language of fiction written for children offers… read more