“You Will Be Missed You Know, but This Is No Place for You to Grow”: A Critical Metaphor Study of Pre-Adoption Narratives

This article discusses (pre-)adoption narratives by investigating a selection of children’s picture books featuring multi-ethnic families. The research examines both textual and pictorial resources, focusing specifically on the use of metaphors as a tool of cognition which may help an audie...

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Main Author: Giorgia Riboni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ostrava 2022-09-01
Series:Ostrava Journal of English Philology
Online Access:https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/ostravajournal/14-1/OJEP_22-1_Riboni.pdf