An Analysis on the Emotions and Feelings of Love Depicted in Picture Books (abstract only)  

Oleh:

Kim, Taekyung ; Jun, Yeonwoo ; Jo, Heasook

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 1067-1068.
Topik: picture book; love; emotion
Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 194.pdf (149.53KB)

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Children are grown, developed and changed as they experience lots of relationships such as those with parents, brothers, sisters and peers. Children's early affection is followed by their relations with peers and then their interest in others and the opposite sex. Therefore, children also may have love for the opposite sex(Song & Han, 2006). Love is not just a single psychological state, but a multi-faceted phenomenon that is experienced in a wide range of different relations(Aronson, 2010). As such, love is explicitly or implicitly suggested in picture books with which children are so familiar. Verbal depictions and visual images that picture books use to suggest certain emotions or feelings have the potential to stimulate readers to be aroused with a wider range of emotions or feelings. This state is called emotional ekphrasis, an experience important to readers(Nikolajeva, 2012). Picture books allow children as their main readers to have emotional and cognitive experiences, meet a world other than the reality, sympathize with the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of characters, indirectly experience ways of problem-solving, and develop their understanding of others' emotions. As a social organism. children need to predict others' behaviors by reading and understand others' mind. In this sense, they need to use picture books as a means of arousing their emotions or feelings. In a similar vein, analyzing emotions and feelings that are depicted in picture books, which range from affection detected in the early development level of children to love of others that children express in social relations may be meaningful, especially in relation to early childhood education. Therefore, this study has the purpose of investigating how the emotions and feelings of love are expressed or represented in picture books. Picture books with the theme of love that were selected for this study are?Frog in Love?,?Je Vous Aime Tant Null?,?Puppy Love?,?I Like You?,?That Yucky Love Thing?,?Poux?,?Camille in Love?and?A Big Mice?. And then the study analyzed these books in terms of text and illustration to determine how the emotions and feelings of characters that fell in love are expressed in accordance with scene. Findings of this study can be summarized as follows. First, emotions or feelings that characters of picture books have when falling in love are revealed through their physical and emotional changes that in turn explicitly expressed by those characters themselves or implicitly suggested by other ones. Second, direct verbal expressions and metaphors are used to express the emotions or feelings of love. Third, characters communicate their emotions or feelings of love by using lots of different media. Fourth, characters indirectly express their emotions or feelings of love by projecting those emotions or feelings onto others. This study found that the surveyed picture books express the emotions and feelings of love in various manners. Reading such picture books would allow children as readers to have lots of emotional experiences and arouse themselves with a new horizon of emotions and feelings while reading.

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