Theory in Practice: Semiotics of Symbols of Poetry for Children in the Eighties Based on the Semantic Triangles of Agden and Richards

Abstract

The use of "allegory" and "symbols" to better understand the concepts, particularly abstract and rational concepts, is one of the ways in which children's literature is very important and it can be examined from multiple views one of which is semiotic structure or meaning of the symbols that can open the way to new issues in literature. Therefore, this article uses qualitative and quantitative mixed research methods and the semiotic pattern of symbols of Ogden and Richards to explore the semiotics of meaning of symbols in children's literature in the eighties. Semiotic symbols of this period show that the ideas that have changed signs in stories this decade are more religious and moral. In addition, the study of data, based on the above model, shows that thought alone cannot be considered the main factor in changing the signs of the symbol, but other components such as the multiple characteristics of a case and its semantic evolution over time must be considered.

Keywords

• poetic literature
• children's literature
• 1380s decade
• symbol
• religious though