From appreciation to productionhumorous narratives by children in Spanish

  1. Leonor Ruiz Gurillo 1
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

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Revue:
Language Design: Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics

ISSN: 1139-4218

Année de publication: 2017

Número: 19

Pages: 5-30

Type: Article

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Résumé

The aim of this paper is to analyze children’s production of humor from a linguistic perspective. Our research focuses on linguistic aspects of humor production and appreciation analyzed through a corpus of 148 narratives in Spanish about the same subject –a school trip to Mars‒ handwritten by nine-to-ten-year-old schoolchildren. Understood as “the experience of finding something amusing” (Kaufman et al. 2008: 241), the types of appreciation (Klein 2003: 7; Orekoya et al. 2014) that children enjoy are: physical discrepancy; violation of expectations, of rational behavior, and of conceptual thought; production of linguistic rules in Martian language; and distortions/exaggerations. From this linguistic approach, these types of incongruity stem from logical mechanisms (Attardo et al., 2002) based on reasoning –analogy, coincidence, etc.- rather than on syntagmatic Relationships, such as juxtaposition or parallelism, to quote but two. The children involved can use a number of humorous markers, including exclamations, and humorous indicators ‒metaphors and phraseological units, amongst others‒ to narrate an adventure in this fantastic world. The present would thus corroborate the acquisition of humor competence by children, focused on the linguistic elements that they use in narratives.

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