儿童绘本《小伤疤》中情感隐喻的多模态研究
A Multimodal Study of Emotional Metaphors in the Children’s Picture Book The Scar

作为面向3~12岁低幼龄读者的多模态语篇，儿童绘本主要是运用文字和图像等多种模态，以及面部表情、肢体动作、行为事件、颜色以及体势等多种符号，来构建各种情感的多模态隐喻，从而降低情绪的抽象性，帮助儿童获取感同身受的情感体验。本文以儿童生命教育叙事绘本《小伤疤》为研究对象，系统考察绘本中人物愤怒、悲伤和爱情感隐喻的不同类型以及多模态构建手段，研究其中多模态情感隐喻空间的整体构建，以期能够帮助绘本作者理清情感隐喻的构建方式和路径，帮助其创作出更为优质的儿童绘本，进而能够让儿童读者们更好地理解情感并获得良好且深刻的情感体验。
As a multimodal discourse targeting young readers aged 3~12, children’s picture books primarily utilize various modes such as text and images, alongside symbols like facial expressions, body movements, actions, colors and postures to construct multimodal emotional metaphors. These approaches reduce the abstractness of emotions and help children acquire empathetic emotional experiences. This study takes the children’s life-education narrative picture book The Scar as its research object. It systematically examines the different types of emotional metaphors—such as anger, sadness and love—present in the book, as well as the multimodal strategies employed in their construction. The study further explores the overall construction of the multimodal emotional metaphor space within the book. The aim is to assist picture book authors in understanding the methods and pathways for constructing emotional metaphors, enabling them to create higher-quality children’s picture books. Ultimately, this will help young readers better understand emotions and gain profound and meaningful emotional experiences.