Abstract With numerous museums currently targeting children and families, museum texts aimed at a young public are becoming increasingly frequent. There is little literature however concerning the ways in which those texts strive to shape children’s experience and understanding. Using children’s texts collected from two French museums, Paris’s Musée d’Orsay and Musée en Herbe, and drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics theory, this study first seeks to explore the linguistic features of children’s texts. Using Legitimation Code Theory, the study also highlights and contrasts the ways in which the two museums’ practices and beliefs concerning their roles as learning institutions influence the texts they produce, in terms of both learning potential and interaction with their young audience.

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塑造年轻观众的学习：两个巴黎博物馆儿童文本的比较案例研究

摘要 当前，随着众多以儿童和家庭为对象的博物馆，针对年轻公众的博物馆文本变得越来越频繁。然而，关于这些文本努力塑造儿童体验和理解的方式的文献很少。本研究利用从巴黎奥赛博物馆和赫布博物馆这两个法国博物馆收集的儿童文本，借鉴系统功能语言学理论，首先探索儿童文本的语言特征。使用合法性代码理论，该研究还强调和对比了两个博物馆关于其作为学习机构角色的实践和信念影响他们制作的文本的方式，包括学习潜力和与年轻观众的互动。