Children’s Literature and Childhood Discourses

Anna Cermakova is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK and EdTech consultant for WiKIT, AS. Michaela Mahlberg is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Anna Cermáková (Lancaster University, UK) & Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK)
1. Sensitive Girls, Purposeful Boys, and Embodied Emplacement, Catherine Olver and Maria Nikolajeva (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. Can Children Read Irony? A Cautionary Tale, Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham, UK)
3. The Rhetoric of Orphanhood, Marion Gymnich (University of Bonn, Germany)
4. Caroline Hewins and Making Space for Books for the Young in American Public Libraries, Rebekah Fitzsimmons (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
5. Children’s Geographies and (Spatial) Literacy, Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham, UK)
6. Revisioning Lewis Carroll’s Alice and their Afterlives through Male Performance, Kiera Vaclavik (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
7. Exploring Representations of Girls and Boys in the Text Printed on Slogan T-Shirts, Marianne McKinley (UK)
8. Discovering What It Means to be Unladylike in Children’s Fiction, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK) and Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK)
9. Gendered Reporting Verbs in the Italian Translation of Harry Potter, Lorenzo Mastropierro (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy)
10. Hegemonic and Counter Discourses of Happiness, Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham, UK)
Post scriptum: Reading Children’s Books Aloud, Caroline Radcliffe, (University of Birmingham, UK)
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