繪本是藉由「圖像語言」與「文字語言」所結合的創作特色，將具有空間屬性的平面繪畫與累積經驗的抽象符號─文字，結合成新的創作體制，猶如一種多媒體綜合語言的呈現；而繪本也是一種消費文化，經由讀者自身的文化經驗所影響，進而創造出文本的意義。繪本透過「圖像語言」與「文字語言」的想像遊戲，具有一種傳遞訊息（message）的功能，要研究是什麼使得圖像、文字變成訊息，就必須研究符號；符號是各種人為製品或行為，目的在傳遞意義，符碼則是決定符號關係的系統，而符號和符號之間運作的關聯性就是符號學（semiotics or semiology）。符號學是一種文化研究的工具，它與傳統的批評方法有所差異，傳統的批評方法著重在美學事物和文本（text）內在意義的詮釋，而符號學所探討的，主要是在文本（text）中意義是如何創造及產生的，而非意義是什麼。羅蘭•巴特認為藝術作品類似於天然語言的符號系統，讀者可以依據這些視覺形象交流自己的或相互的意願，表達本身的思想和行動，在符號學的角度下，畫作被視為一組符號系統，或是一組有待解答的符碼，除了其影像本身所影射的外在對象外，也能夠傳達出特定的意義或訊息。 本研究之研究方法採用的乃是「深度訪談」及「文本分析法」的方式來進行，研究者認為理論觀點可以深入《布赫茲─系列繪本》文本的感受和詮釋，對於繪本或藝術作品來說，意義是透過讀者的參與和詮釋才形成的，理論則是其中方法的媒介，本論文從文字與圖像的延異關係進行創作性詮釋，並將布赫茲繪本進行超現實圖像分析，再以雅各遜「言語六種」的符號傳播功能及巴特《S/Z》五種符碼應用在《布赫茲─系列繪本》文本內容，三者形成詮釋的關連性並加以分析探討，藉此更深入分析布赫茲文本內容的互文性，並印證原本只用於書寫文本的符碼學具有跨文本的效用。 Picture book is a new creation which combined from ＂graphic languages＂ and ＂text languages＂. It also combines graphics which has space element and experienced abstract symbol – text, to create a brand new creative form, just like a presentation of multimedia integrated language. Picture book has a ＂messenger＂ function through the process of imagination of ＂graphic languages＂ and ＂text languages＂. To study what makes graphics and text become messages, we have to study symbols; Symbols are human made products or behaviors, which can deliver meanings to people. Codes are systems which define the relations between symbols, and the working relations between symbols and symbols are semiotics. Semiotics is a culture research tool, it has some difference between the traditional critic ways. The traditional critic ways heavily talk about the aesthetics and the inner interpretation of the meanings of text but semiotics talks about how the meanings are made and created in the text but now what the meanings are. Roland Barthes thinks that art works are similar to the symbols system of natural languages, the audience can present their thoughts and actions by exchanging their wills according to those images. Under the affection of semiotics, pictures are looked as symbols systems or codes which need to be decoded. The images of pictures not only describe objects but also deliver some specific meanings of messages. I think the point of view of the research theory could touch the feelings and meanings from the series of picture books of Quint Buchholz. To the picture books or art works, the meanings are created by the process of the audience involving and interpretation and the theory is the media to do the research. This essay starts from the special relationship of text and graphics with creative interpretation, then Surrealism-analysis Buchholz's picture book. After that we apply the symbol communicate function of Jakobson's languages six and Roland Barthes' five <S/Z> codes into the content of text of the series of works of Buchholz, try to analysis their relationship of interpretation. By that we'll attempt to analysis the interactive property of Buchholz's works and prove that semiotics could not only be used on writing but also works on different kinds of media.
