Linguistic Representations of Gender in Children's Literature

Sally Hunt is a Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK. She specialises in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and language and gender. Her research focuses on the ideological analysis of media, particularly fiction, with an emphasis on the representation of intersectional aspects of identity such as gender and race.

• Chapter 1: What’s it all about?.- Chapter 2: Method: the plot outlined.- Chapter 3: Speaking and interaction.- Chapter 4: First impressions: Appearance and Identity.- Chapter 5: Giggle, shriek or guffaw? How to speak as a girl or a boy.- Chapter 6: Tearful girls and angry boys.- Chapter 7: Agency and acting on the world: are all heroes bro’s?.- Chapter 8: The Others.- Chapter 9: Drawing it all together.