John Stephens

List of John Benjamins publications in which John Stephens is involved.

Article

Stephens, John 1994 Signifying strategies and closed texts in Australian children’s literature Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 17:2, pp. 131–146 | Article

This paper examines children’s literature as discourse and argues that attention to the textuality of children’s literature discloses a network of signifying strategies which serve to confine texts within a narrow band of socio-cultural values. The language of fiction written for children offers… read more