Multimodal gender representations in ten best-selling children\u27s storybooks published in the Philippines: A critical discourse analysis

This study is a critical discourse analysis that investigated multimodal representations of gender in ten best-selling children\u27s storybooks published in the Philippines. It explored how some linguistic and visual elements create and represent gendered-identities in children\u27s storybooks. It also investigated how ideologies on gender are realized through linguistic and visual representations of females and males in children\u27s storybooks published in the Philippines. Results showed that linguistic and visual gender markers helped create gendered-identities in the storybooks. These gender markers were also found to convey overt and covert ideologies on gender. Gendered-identities in the storybooks were also represented through traditional stereotypes. Finally, stereotypes, inclusion, exclusion, foregrounding, and backgrounding of female and male represented participants in the children\u27s storybooks expressed and realized in the texts the pervasive ideology that tends to downgrade, marginalize, and exclude women