Breaking in and spinning out: Repetition and decalibration in Thai children’s play genres
Breaking in and spinning out: Repetition and decalibration in Thai children’s play genres
复制标题
闯入与分拆：泰国儿童游戏类型的重复与失准
作者：
K. Howard
摘要儿童幽默游戏是一种具有独特审美的文化活动，在这种审美中，高度创造性的、不协调的、意想不到的言语和行为得到了评价、欣赏和奖励。鲍曼的校准的概念，说话者调整他们的互文话语，以新的上下文和目的，本文认为，一个审美的校准是在工作中的儿童的元语言和元语用语言游戏。儿童利用语言和语用歧义来打破预期，利用复杂的语言，语境和语用知识来创造最大限度的幽默语言游戏表演。通过密切分析的录像互动从一个更大的民族志，话语分析研究北方泰国儿童的日常生活，本文探讨了如何年幼的儿童社会化到这些做法的语言游戏，通过外围参与多年龄的游戏组，显示重复的诗意结构和可预测性的游戏类型构成的出发点和突破点的语言游戏。（校准、重复、儿童语言、游戏、语言社会化、泰语、幽默）1
ABSTRACT Children’s humorous play is a cultural activity with its own particular aesthetic – an aesthetic in which highly creative, incongruent, and unexpected speech and action are valorized, appreciated, and rewarded. Drawing on Bauman’s concept of calibration, the adjustments by which speakers align their intertextual utterances to new contexts and purposes, this paper argues that an aesthetic of decalibration is at work in children’s metalinguistic and metapragmatic language play. Children capitalize upon linguistic and pragmatic ambiguity to breach expectations, drawing on complex linguistic, contextual and pragmatic knowledge to create maximally humorous language play performances. Through close analysis of videotaped interactions from a larger ethnographic, discourse analytic study of northern Thai children’s everyday lives, this article examines how younger children are socialized into these practices of language play through peripheral participation in multi-age play groups, showing that the repetitive poetic structure and predictability of the play genres constitute jumping-off and breaking-in points for language play. (Calibration, repetition, children’s language, play, language socialization, Thai, humor)1