“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

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• 作者：Sarah Hardstaff
• 关键词：Corpus linguistics ; Agency ; Character development ; Michael Halliday ; Mildred D. Taylor ; African American children’s literature
• 刊名：Children's Literature in Education
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：46
• 期：3
• 页码：226-241
• 全文大小：456 KB
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• 作者单位：Sarah Hardstaff (1)
  
  1. c/o Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, UK
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Linguistics
  Languages and Literature
  Language Education
  Education
  Sociology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1693

文摘

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 society as well as its depiction of a strong African American family with the capacity to bring about change. By charting linguistic features associated with agency, it is possible to examine character development and ideology within the text, and to arrive at conclusions which both support and interrogate existing literary criticism on Taylor’s work, with a particular focus on Cassie Logan, considering the role of the child witness-narrator/character and her development over the course of the novel. This methodological framework provides new insights on a classic children’s text, while also bringing to the foreground issues of cultural bias in text analysis. This study provides support for Kelly McDowell’s suggestion of a ‘culturally specific agency-in Roll of Thunder, as well as expanding on this idea.