'Papa Said That One Day I Would Understand': Examining Child Agency and Character Development in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Using Critical Corpus Linguistics.

This paper considers the issue of child agency in Mildred D. Taylor's 1976 novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry using a critical corpus linguistics framework based on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics. The novel has long received praise for its portrayal of child agency in a hostile racist so...

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Publicado en:Children's Literature in Education Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 226 - 242
Autor principal: Hardstaff, Sarah
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2015
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