Resumen
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar cómo el concepto de muerte es presentado en los modos semióticos verbales y visuales del libro álbum, Granpa, escrito e ilustrado por John Burningham. Los enfoques teóricos utilizados para el análisis son la Gramática Sistémica Funcional de Halliday y la Semiótica Social de Kress y van Leeuwen. Los resultados del 1 A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro is a professor in the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). He has published several articles on picture books and multimodality in international journals such as Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Word, Text, Functions of Language, Journal of Pragmatics, Text and Talk and Atlantis. Among other books, he is co-editor of The World Told and The World Shown: Multisemiotic Issues (2009, Palgrave Macmillan) and author of A Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children. A Systemic Functional Approach (2014, Equinox). María Begoña Ruiz Cordero is a lecturer at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Her main research lines are: teacher training and the implementation of bilingualism in pre-school and primary education contexts. She has just read her phd on the implementation of bilingual programs in the region of Castilla-La Mancha. Miriada_Hispanica_13.indb 83 16/1/17 19:14
Palabras clave: Multimodalidad, GSF, Semiótica Visual, Muerte, Esperanza
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze how the concept of death is represented both verbally and visually in the picture book Granpa by John Burningham. The analytical tools employed in this study are essentially Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar and Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Social Semiotics. The results, obtained from the comparison between the verbal and non-verbal semiotic modes, shed light on the complementary relationships that are established between words and images to present a delicate topic such as the death of a grandfather. The results also show that the illustrations seem to represent aspects related to death and hope more effectively than words.
Keywords: Multimodality, SFG, Visual Semiotics, Death, Hope