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SUMMARY:Context-dependent Crossover: A Case Study of the Reception of Jimm
 y Liao’s The Sound of Colors and When the Moon Forgot in the English-spe
 aking Market - Xiaofei Shi\, Faculty of Education
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CONTACT:Lingling Xu
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the crossover phenomenon in two of Jimmy L
 iao’s picturebooks and their English translations: The Sound of Colors a
 nd When the Moon Forgot\, focusing on how the texts’ potential to facili
 tate readers’ transgression of socially prescribed reading categories re
 lates to a specific social\, economic\, cultural context\, and what the im
 plications of my case study of a particular author’s work for crossover 
 theory more generally are. Crossover here designates that a text evokes bo
 th the child readership and the adult readership. It is argued: as the exp
 ectation of and the demand put on the child reader vary in different socia
 l\, economic\, cultural contexts\, a text’s crossover appeal is context-
 dependent\; the significance of a specific context comes to the fore when 
 a text is transplanted from one context into another\; therefore crossover
  relates to a crossing of age boundaries\, and more importantly\, cultural
  boundaries.\n
LOCATION:Room 2S3\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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