Humor production in children’s narratives in Spanish

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Autor(a) principal: Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Calidoscópio (Online)
Texto Completo: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2017.152.01
Resumo: 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. Understanding humor as “the experience of finding something amusing”, the types of appreciation that children enjoy are: physical discrepancy; violation of expectations, rational behavior, and conceptual thought; production of linguistic rules in Martian language; and distortions/exaggerations. From this linguistic approach, these types of incongruity stem from logical mechanisms 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 study would thus corroborate the acquisition of humor competence by children, based on the linguistic elements that they use in narratives.Keywords: humor competence, humor production, humor appreciation, incongruity, children.
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spelling Humor production in children’s narratives in SpanishProdução de humor em narrativas infantis em espanholThe 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. Understanding humor as “the experience of finding something amusing”, the types of appreciation that children enjoy are: physical discrepancy; violation of expectations, rational behavior, and conceptual thought; production of linguistic rules in Martian language; and distortions/exaggerations. From this linguistic approach, these types of incongruity stem from logical mechanisms 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 study would thus corroborate the acquisition of humor competence by children, based on the linguistic elements that they use in narratives.Keywords: humor competence, humor production, humor appreciation, incongruity, children.O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a produção infantil de humor a partir de uma perspectiva linguística. A pesquisa centra-se nos aspectos linguísticos da produção e apreciação do humor, analisados a partir de um corpus de 148 narrativas em espanhol sobre o mesmo assunto – uma viagem escolar a Marte –, escritas à mão por alunos de nove a dez anos de idade. Entendendo-se o humor como a experiência de encontrar algo divertido, os tipos de apreciação humorística de que as crianças gostam são os seguintes: discrepância física; violação de expectativas, de comportamento racional e de pensamento conceitual; produção de regras linguísticas em língua marciana e distorções/exageros. A partir dessa abordagem linguística, verifica-se que esses tipos de incongruência derivam de mecanismos lógicos, baseados no raciocínio – analogia, coincidência, etc. – e não em relações sintagmáticas como justaposição ou paralelismo, para citar apenas duas. As crianças envolvidas no estudo podem usar uma série de marcadores humorísticos, incluindo exclamações e indicadores humorísticos – metáforas e unidades fraseológicas, entre outros – para narrar uma aventura neste mundo fantástico. O presente estudo, então, corroboraria a aquisição da competência humorística pelas crianças, com base nos elementos linguísticos que elas utilizam nas narrativas. Palavras-chave: competência do humor, produção do humor, apreciação do humor, incongruência, crianças.Unisinos2017-06-21info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2017.152.01Calidoscópio; Vol. 15 No. 2 (2017): May/August; 222-231Calidoscópio; v. 15 n. 2 (2017): maio/agosto; 222-2312177-6202reponame:Calidoscópio (Online)instname:Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)instacron:Unisinosenghttps://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2017.152.01/6170Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonorinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2017-10-09T18:30:45Zoai:ojs2.revistas.unisinos.br:article/12862Revistahttps://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopioPUBhttps://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/oaicmira@unisinos.br || cmira@unisinos.br2177-62022177-6202opendoar:2017-10-09T18:30:45Calidoscópio (Online) - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)false
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Produção de humor em narrativas infantis em espanhol
title Humor production in children’s narratives in Spanish
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title_short Humor production in children’s narratives in Spanish
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description 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. Understanding humor as “the experience of finding something amusing”, the types of appreciation that children enjoy are: physical discrepancy; violation of expectations, rational behavior, and conceptual thought; production of linguistic rules in Martian language; and distortions/exaggerations. From this linguistic approach, these types of incongruity stem from logical mechanisms 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 study would thus corroborate the acquisition of humor competence by children, based on the linguistic elements that they use in narratives.Keywords: humor competence, humor production, humor appreciation, incongruity, children.
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