Using genre to explain how children linguistically co-construct make-believe social scenarios in classroom role-play

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Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI:10.1515/text-2021-0185
Sarah Jane Mukherjee
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This paper argues that classroom role-play can be conceptualised theoretically as an oral genre, as defined within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The work draws on analysis of 15 video-recorded child-led role-plays in which groups of three 4–5 year-old children engage in five different life-like social scenarios. The study is underpinned by SFL register and genre analysis of the children’s interactions, and the findings reveal how the children’s linguistic choices have a direct impact on the dynamically unfolding role-play, and how imaginary scenarios are construed by the instantiation of individual genre stages, some of which serve to regulate the role-play and others that mimic real life social scenarios. The findings suggest that the two different types of stages construe two separate, but interwoven contexts, with the make-believe context often being dependent on the regulative context. The paper offers new insights into the ways in which SFL can reveal nuances in children’s dialogic and dynamic language in play.
运用体裁解释儿童在课堂角色扮演中如何在语言上共同建构虚构的社会情景
本文认为,课堂角色扮演在理论上可以被定义为系统功能语言学(SFL)定义的一种口头类型。这项研究分析了15段由儿童主导的角色扮演视频,在这些视频中,3名4-5岁的儿童每组参与5种不同的生活化社交场景。本研究以儿童互动的语域和体裁分析为基础,揭示了儿童的语言选择如何直接影响动态展开的角色扮演,以及如何通过个体体裁阶段的实例化来解释想象场景,其中一些用于调节角色扮演,另一些用于模拟现实生活中的社会场景。研究结果表明,这两种不同类型的阶段构成了两个独立但相互交织的情境,其中假装情境往往依赖于调节情境。本研究对儿童游戏中对话和动态语言的细微差别的揭示方式提供了新的见解。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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