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dc.contributor.authorWatson, Lindall Annen
dc.contributor.authorUnsworth, Leonarden
dc.contributor.authorChan, Evelineen
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-14T22:21:40Z-
dc.date.available2019-10-14T22:21:40Z-
dc.date.created2018-07-18en
dc.date.issued2019-02-11-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27642-
dc.description.abstractThe overall aim of this thesis is to investigate what makes children's animated television shows (CATS) so apparently engaging, and what kinds of values are being promoted by the phenomenally popular characters in these shows. The investigation is pursued from a semiotic perspective of engagement and value positions - theoretically and methodologically necessitating a bringing together of recent systemic functional linguistic (SFL) research into linguistic resources for conveying attitude, and systemic functional semiotic (SFS) research on the resources of images for constructing viewer/image interaction. By examining the interplay between the two semiotics, image and verbiage, in the way they afford interpersonal meaning in animated texts, this research aims to give insights into how CATS contribute to the cultural participation of young children (0-6 years) within a digital consumer context.<br/> The research method involved four stages. The first stage consisted of a parent survey which yielded the wide range of young children's television (animated and non-animated) programs from which two episodes of CATS were selected: Dora the Explorer (DTE) and Charlie and Lola (C&L). Analysis of the narrative structure of each CATS, characterising the second stage revealed the difference between a quest challenge and a quest contest. The third stage, examined the dialogic discourse of each CATS to reveal two kinds of viewer roles: an active team member role and an active interpretative confidant role. The description of the distinctive nature of each viewer role was enabled through intermodal analysis. The analysis of the language and image resources in DTE revealed the engagement strategies that encourage inclusion through opportunities to rally together as a team and celebrate success, whereas, the analysis of the language and image resources in C&L revealed engagement strategies that invited interpretation of the familial banter between two siblings. The analysis of the fourth stage focused on the evaluative resources of language and image revealing how the discourse of each quest promotes prosocial values. The study found that the quest challenge (DTE) invests considerable work to share the values of social responsibility through the deployment of evaluative resources, while the quest contest (C&L) was found to use evaluative resources to manage the positive family values of congenial relations and mutual respect.<br/> It is through the detailed investigation of the interactive relationships that this research produced an understanding of the structures that are crafted to promote socialisation and enculturation practices to young children, as well as the multimodal construction of interpersonal meaning in CATS. The implication of these findings may assist early childhood practitioners to recognise the beneficial contribution CATS can make as resources to a contemporary early childhood values curriculum.en
dc.languageenen
dc.titleViewer Engagement in Children's Animated Television Shows: A Systemic Functional Perspectiveen
dc.typeThesis Doctoralen
dcterms.accessRightsUNE Greenen
dc.subject.keywordsApplied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen
dc.subject.keywordsCurriculum and Pedagogyen
local.contributor.firstnameLindall Annen
local.contributor.firstnameLeonarden
local.contributor.firstnameEvelineen
local.subject.for2008200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen
local.subject.for2008130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008930399 Curriculum not elsewhere classifieden
dc.date.conferred2018en
local.hos.emailhosedu@une.edu.auen
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local.thesis.degreelevelDoctoralen
local.thesis.degreenameDoctor of Philosophy - PhDen
local.contributor.grantorUniversity of New Englanden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Educationen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Educationen
local.profile.emaillwatso22@myune.edu.auen
local.profile.emaillunswort@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailechan4@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.title.subtitleA Systemic Functional Perspectiveen
local.access.fulltextYesen
local.contributor.lastnameWatsonen
local.contributor.lastnameUnsworthen
local.contributor.lastnameChanen
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local.RightsStatementCopyright 2018 - Lindall Ann Watsonen
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local.title.maintitleViewer Engagement in Children's Animated Television Showsen
local.output.categorydescriptionT2 Thesis - Doctorate by Researchen
local.school.graduationSchool of Educationen
local.search.authorWatson, Lindall Annen
local.search.supervisorUnsworth, Leonarden
local.search.supervisorChan, Evelineen
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local.year.conferred2019en
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local.fileurl.openpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/a5816fa2-cb4b-460b-8218-1180d8e71b62en
local.subject.for2020390104 English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)en
local.subject.for2020470401 Applied linguistics and educational linguisticsen
local.subject.for2020390302 Early childhood educationen
local.subject.seo2020160304 Teaching and instruction technologiesen
local.subject.seo2020160101 Early childhood educationen
local.codeupdate.date2022-03-31T10:53:13.204en
local.codeupdate.epersonechan4@une.edu.auen
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