Publications

Publication details [#51321]

Moya Guijarro, A. Jesus and Jesús Ángel Ávila Zamorano. 2009. Thematic progression of children's stories as related to different stages of cognitive development. Text & Talk 29 (6) : 755–774.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's book | cognitive development | discourse structure | functional linguistics

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This study uses systemic functional linguistics to explore the thematic structure progression of twenty English language children's storybooks in relation to four different Piagetian-based cognitive development stages.