Enriched and reductive interpretations in the digital narration of picture books
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This article presents the results of a research developed about the narrations in digital platforms of the picture book The bear under the stairs, by Helen Cooper (1993). In this picture book we find a word-image interaction which sometimes causes a counterpoint relationship. On the other hand, it starts and ends the narration within the margins of the text, within the spaces reserved for the peritext. This research studies how mediators from different countries, mother tongues, and training narrate this book in particular in digital platforms. Of a sample of 53 videos in Spanish, English, and Catalan, we analyzed the strategies used by these digital mediators to reveal or conceal the cues that enable the reader to interpret the work, as well as the interpretations derived from these strategies and the amplifications made, which propose either enriching or reductive readings.
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