ABSTRACT
This article aims at the articulation of language in children's literature in the context of multimedia society. Grounded in critical discourse analysis, the essay addresses the ways in which texts relate in different medias, appropriating the articulation of different semiotic materials (or languages in an unorthodox perspective). In an attempt to account for the dimensions involved, this article is organized in four sections. The first discusses how literature can be understood in the context of media convergence. The second section discusses the analytical potential of the concept of intertextuality to observe the relationships between different texts and how they are part of transnational discursive and social changes. The third systematizes the ways in which languages are articulated in the production of meanings, the discursive trends in which this movement is inscribed and the effects of meaning that tend to be produced in multimedia society, in the analysis of a children's book, titled Aperte aqui , by Hervé (Tullet 2011TULLET, H. (2011). Aperte aqui. São Paulo: Ática.). The analysis focuses on the imbricated relationship between the digital environment, contemporary texts and literature, in this case, children's literature. By means of this analysis we discuss the scope of the new media in the resizing of writing and literary reading.
Keywords:
children's literature; multimedia society; intermedialities; Hervé Tullet