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Article published In: Humour in Spanish Context
Edited by Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev
[Spanish in Context 18:1] 2021
► pp. 30–55

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Análisis del humor en un corpus de habla infantil espontánea

 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Article language: Spanish

Published online: 3 May 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00067.gar
Abstracta
Este trabajo analiza la capacidad humorística de niños de 3;0 a 6;0 años durante sus interacciones con adultos y entre iguales, recogidas en un corpus de habla infantil espontánea del español. El marco metodológico está en la línea del propuesto por Timofeeva-Timofeev, Larissa. 2017. “Metapragmática del humor infantil.” Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 701: 5–19. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, basado en las seis etapas sugeridas por McGhee, Paul. E. 1979. Humor, its origin and development. San Francisco: WH Freeman and Company.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, y recurre, para analizar los datos, a las teorías sobre el origen del humor (Meyer, John C. 2000. Humor as a double-edged sword: Four functions of humor in communication. Communication theory 10 (3): 310–331. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) y los tipos de incongruencia preferidos por los niños (Klein, Amelia J. 2003. “Introduction: A global perspective of humor.” En Humor in children’s lives: A guidebook for practitioners, ed. por Amelia J. Klein, 3–15. Westport: CT, Praeger.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). Los resultados muestran un incremento tanto de situaciones verbales humorísticas como de la complejidad pragmática de las mismas desde los 3;0 a los 6;0 años, especialmente a partir de los 5;0 años, momento en el cual se empieza a apreciar en los mensajes de los niños una competencia metapragmática superior (Gombert, Jean Émile. 1992. Metalinguistic development. Great Britain: Harvester Wheatsheaf.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar).
Abstract
Analysis of humor in a corpus of spontaneous child speech
This paper analyses the humorous capacity in children aged 3;0 to 6;0 in their interactions with adults and peers, collected in a Spanish corpus of spontaneous child speech. The methodological framework is in line with the one proposed by Timofeeva-Timofeev, Larissa. 2017. “Metapragmática del humor infantil.” Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 701: 5–19. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, based on the six stages suggested by McGhee, Paul. E. 1979. Humor, its origin and development. San Francisco: WH Freeman and Company.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar and resorts to the theories of humour origin (Meyer, John C. 2000. Humor as a double-edged sword: Four functions of humor in communication. Communication theory 10 (3): 310–331. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) and to the types of incongruity enjoyed by children (Klein, Amelia J. 2003. “Introduction: A global perspective of humor.” En Humor in children’s lives: A guidebook for practitioners, ed. por Amelia J. Klein, 3–15. Westport: CT, Praeger.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) to analyse data. Results show an increase of humorous verbal situations as well as of the pragmatic complexity of them from 3;0 to 6;0 year-olds, especially from 5;0 years old onwards, when children’s speech shows a higher metapragmatic competence (Gombert, Jean Émile. 1992. Metalinguistic development. Great Britain: Harvester Wheatsheaf.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar).
Article outline
  • 1.Introducción
  • 2.El análisis del humor infantil en corpus orales
    • 2.1El humor como elemento transversal
    • 2.2El humor infantil
    • 2.3Estudios previos. Propuestas de análisis del humor infantil
  • 3.El presente estudio: Preguntas de investigación
  • 4.Metodología
    • 4.1Descripción del corpus
    • 4.2Método de extracción de unidades humorísticas
    • 4.3Clasificación de unidades humorísticas
  • 5.Resultados
  • 6.Discusión
  • 7.Conclusiones
  • Referencias
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