Who is God and where does He live? The semiotic analysis of the character of God in children’s perception in the families of practising Catholics Cover Image

Kim jest Bóg i gdzie mieszka? Analiza semiotyczna postaci Boga w percepcji dziecięcej w rodzinach praktykujących katolików
Who is God and where does He live? The semiotic analysis of the character of God in children’s perception in the families of practising Catholics

Author(s): Agnieszka Bzymek
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Pedagogiczne
Keywords: triadic sign concept; naive concepts; semiotic analysis; perception of children

Summary/Abstract: The text concerns the issue of children’s perception of God. I link it to the semiotic analysis and Charles Sanders Peirce’s triadic concept of sign. Making use of the theories as well as the interviews concerning the perception of the character of God I demonstrate that the child interprets the world through contact with symbolic reality and through giving reality some meaning. Giving meaning applies to listening to the message as well as to analysing the conditions under which it occurred in a specific situation and finally to interpreting received content. The analysis of the interviews was done on the basis of semiotic analysis.

  • Issue Year: XII/2016
  • Issue No: 1 (32)
  • Page Range: 91-105
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish