A sociolinguistic study on the structural properties and sociocultural meaning of pun and speech play in Korean young children’s peer talk

Kang, Nayoung

nayoung612@naver.com

Received 2월 17일 Revised 3월 1일~3월 31일 Accepted 4월 13일

Abstract

This paper examines the use of pun in a Korean preschool classroom from the perspective of sociolinguistic study. The purpose of this research is to describe and analyze how Korean young children learn and speak their peer talk and cultural theme in regard to forms and meaning of pun and speech play. For this study, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork for one year at a Korean preschool, focusing on intensive participant observation of teachers’ and children’s interactions, supplemented by in-depth interviews with teachers and children. Through the analysis of social interactions in classroom, I argue that 1) the structural properties of pun(sound patterns, lexicon, syntax, and pragmatics) and 2) sociocultural and interactional meaning(performance, pun in class, taboo as sexuality and curse) in various forms of everyday talk

Key Words : young children, pun, speech play, peer talk, Korean language

어린이 ‘동음이의어 말놀이’(pun)의 구조 및 내용적 특성에 대한 사회언어학적 연구

강나영

부산대학교

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Vol. 40 No. 4 (2022.12)

Journal Abbreviation j. Korea Saf. Manag. Sci.
Frequency Published four times annually in March, June, September, and December
Doi Prefix 10.14353/sjk.
Year of Launching 1993
Publisher The Sociolinguistic Society of Korea

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