기호학적 관점에서 본 그림책의 글과 그림 읽기 = Semiotic analysis of words and pictures in picture books

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This study describes the role of words and pictures in picture books and the relationship between them using semiotic theory and suggests the importance of educating children to analyze and understand these roles and relationships. The role of words and pictures is anchoring and relaying. Words arranged and read in a linear, forward motion move us forward in time and imply space. Pictures provide visual information. Though they inhabit a partial plane and are viewed at a single moment in time, pictures convey the passing of time. Many theorists have differently conceptualized the relationship between words and pictures: iconotext and transmediation. This study reorganizes the three general categories of relationships between words and pictures: symmetrical, enhancing and complementary, and counterpoint and contradiction. In further classifying the relationships, symmetrical relationship can be divided into two sub-categories: reduction and elaboration. Enhancing and complementary relationship has three sub-categories: amplifying, complement, and alternate progress. The counterpoint and contradiction relationship has two sub-categories: irony and counterpoint. A semiotic interpretation of the relationship between the words and pictures in picture books help children understand the story and find pleasure in reading. Children who know the pleasures of picture books have an increased capacity for verbal and visual literacy and form better reading habits.