deictic references in simplified illustrated versions of the adventures of pinocchio (port.- eng.)（直证的引用在简化版本的《匹诺曹(端口。）.pdf

JoLIE 4/2011 DEICTIC REFERENCES IN SIMPLIFIED ILLUSTRATED VERSIONS OF THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (PORT. - ENG.) Alcina Sousa University of Madeira, Portugal Abstract This paper aims at analysing the way writers/translators and illustrators in simplified versions, in Portuguese and English, of Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, skilfully resort both to linguistic / stylistic choices and to non-verbal language to disambiguate deictic references (namely ‘here’ / ‘there’, ‘now’, ‘this’ / ‘that’), otherwise beyond young readers’ grasp. A multi-layered interpretive framework, drawing on discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, and a corpus-based approach (Carter 1994:5), contributes to an understanding of the dynamic intersemiotic dialogue in multimodal simplified stories. These challenge the children with different but sequenced perspectives, facilitating their comprehension of space and time references, thereby fostering visual literacy, language acquisition and reading literacy in the process of meaning-making. Key words: Deixis; Simplified children’s stories; Multimodal texts; Encoding strategies; Intersemiotic dialogue. 1 Introduction The cohesive ties devised across phrases and sentences (Richardson 1998:124) “linking utterances to the contexts in which they are produced” deserve careful study within pragmatics, a discourse-based view and stylistics approach. Also, in their collection of papers “sketching major theoretical and methodological directions for future research on spatial entities”, Aurnague, Hickman and Vieu