Conference:
ECER 2008
Format:
Research Workshop
Session Information
PRE_B8, Preconference; Paper Session B8
Paper Session
Time:
2008-09-08
11:00-12:30
Room:
BE 014
Chair:
Joana da Silveira Duarte
Contribution
Do children adopt behaviors and develop stereotypes by imitating literature personae as the authors wish ? The reference book is "Trelantonis) by a well-known female author Pinelopi Delta.The first step of the research question has been answered with the WSmith. The concordances refer to verbs which have to do with physical approach (touching a hand, holding somebody etc). The analysis (grammatic/syntactic) has been showing this way of expressing feelings (in this book) results to physical or moral pain and deception. It is assumed that a good boy does not show his feelings
and (which is the most important) does not touch or try to come closer to a person or a thing.
It will be presented the outcome of the analysis. Step 2 (questionnaire) is not ready
yet.
Method
Step 1 : WSmith to have concordances
discourse analysis
pragmatics
Step 2 : Questionnaire
Expected Outcomes
As far as children literature is concerned authors aim to influence subconsciously children to adopt behaviors and develop stereotypes through utterances.
References
How to do things with words (Austin) Introduction to Pragmatics (Kanakis) Introduction to Text-linguistics (De Beaugrande and Dressler) Semiotics (Lyons) Grammar by Klairis - Babiniotis
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