Žánrová preference v narativech dětí mladšího školního věku

• Authors: Silvie Cinková , Anežka Náhlíková

Title variants

EN

Genre preferences in the narratives of younger school children

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, we present an analysis of hypothesized sex-specific genre preferences in spontaneous narratives in a corpus of 286 transcribed recordings of younger school children (aged 6–11). We draw upon Nicolopoulou’s conception of narratives as a symbolic activity with sex-specific tendencies: girls prefer the “family” genre and boys prefer the “heroic-agonistic” one. We operationalized Nikolopoulou’s genre classification into 10 thematic narrative features and annotated their respective presence or absence in each narrative. The application of a combination of statistical methods to our sample revealed that the sex-correlated narrative preferences are so weak that they have no implications, e.g. for school practice. The most prominent result, in fact, even counters the a priori assumption of sex-based narrative preferences: no matter what sex or age, children show a strong preference for “mutual aid and cooperation”.

Keywords

CS

narativum; interpretativní sociokulturní přístup; rodinný žánr; hrdinský žánr; děti mladšího školního věku

EN

narrative; interpretive sociocultural approach; family genre; heroic-agonistic genre; younger school-aged children

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 192-214
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Silvie  Cinková

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Anežka  Náhlíková

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic