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The study examines the contribution of visuals to narration, a process proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen as ´reading images´.The picture book conveys a narrative through verbal language and visual grammar. The study explores semiotic systems in terms of image syntax, gestural, spatial and iconic signs to examine the relation between the denotation context of the narrative text and the connotation of the visual text that creates polygamous illustrations and indefinite meaning-making.

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Marwa Essam Eldin Fahmi is an Assistant Professor at MISR University, faculty of Foreign Languages & Translation since 2010. She has extensive years of academic teaching since 1999. She received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Cairo, Egypt in Comparative Postcolonial Drama. She has published articles on Semiotics and Picture books.

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