The relationship between text and illustration in a perspective of dialogical discourse analysis contemporary children's narratives

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the relationship between verbal and visual languages from the perspective of the dialogic analysis of Bakhtin's discourse in two contemporary children's narratives. This relationship is permeated by gaps, fillings, dialogism and co-authorship of the reader in the unveiling of the various layers of meanings that reading provides. Bakhtin's dialogism evokes a relationship between discourses. And here, we will work with verbal and visual languages from the perspective of discourses made by character subjects in the illustrated book O passeio de Rosinha, written and illustrated by Patrícia Hutchins, published by Editora Global e Loba, written by Roberta Malta and illustrated by Paula Schiavon, from Editora Pequena Zahar. They are narratives in which the two languages connect dialogically and collaboratively, providing the reader with co-authorship in relation to the layers of meanings that the stories offer. Our conclusions point out that the contemporary children's and youth narratives analyzed indicate a presence of Bakhtinian discursive dialogism through various biases, whether by verbal and visual language, or by dialogism, intertextuality or by the co-creative participation of the reader when reading and filling in the gaps that verbal text and illustration provide in their layers of meanings.