'My Nose Is Running Like a Pound of Butter': Exploring Young Children's Humour

Autor/inn/en	Coates, Elizabeth; Coates, Andrew
Titel	'My Nose Is Running Like a Pound of Butter': Exploring Young Children's Humour
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 190 (2020) 13, S.2119-2133 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2018.1561443
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Humor; Language Usage; Freehand Drawing; Cultural Context; Creativity; Verbal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Humoristische Darstellung; Sprachgebrauch; Drawing; Zeichnen; Kreativität
Abstract	This paper sets out to explore the nature of the humour generated when pairs of young children talk and draw together. Emphasis is on children's use of language since most of our humorous instances are expressed verbally rather than visually. Humour's various features proved to be highly complicated, however, as examples often transcend boundaries, so in order to facilitate debate our findings were classified and discussed under the following headings: preposterous statements, exaggeration and humorous anecdotes; telling jokes; singing and chanting, playing with words, and rhyming and repeating; bodily functions, body parts and nakedness; narrative humour related to drawing. Although we found many common elements, humour, in terms of its development and progression, appeared to depend on an increasing ability to manipulate language, a deepening understanding of the cultural context in which children lived and overall, a particularly strong sense of the absurd. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01