期刊名称：Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers
印刷版ISSN：1933-026X
出版年度：2009
卷号：7
期号：2
出版社：Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers
摘要：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 naïve, 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.
