The Semiotics of Toys and Games: The Childhood Artefacts That Introduce Us to the World

by Staffan Selander and Theo van Leeuwen

Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play. It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic meaning potentials, exemplifying how they are used in different contexts, such as home and preschool, and how these uses are regulated by parental, pedagogic and marketing discourses.

Building on the work of semioticians such as Barthes, Baudrillard and Krampen,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350324892
• ISBN13: 9781350324893
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"