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- Title
The Depictions of Fathers and Children in Best-Selling Picture Books in the United States: A Hybrid Semiotic Analysis.
- Authors
Flannery Quinn, Suzanne M.
- Abstract
This research examines the presence and depictions of fathers in best-selling picture books in the U.S. using a hybrid semiotic approach. In 200 best-selling picture books for children, among those featuring only a father or only a mother, fathers are featured as prominent as a parent in fewer books (n = 4) than mothers (n = 10). The semiotic analysis of the images and text in two selected picture books reveals connotations related to the roles of fathers as masculine, protective, nurturing, and playful, and the conceptualization of children as naíve, vulnerable, and playful. Further illuminations from the texts are of indexical signs and second-order symbols related to the father's association with night and in particular the moon.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SEMIOTICS; CHILDREN'S literature; PICTURE books for children; ILLUSTRATED children's books
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 2, p140
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.0702.140