Kindliche Sensibilität für gattungsspezifische Gestaltungsmittel - Zur Modellfunktion literaler Texte am Beispiel von Nacherzählungen Siebenjähriger

Stude, Juliane; Fekete, Olga

Abstract

​​​​​​​Abstract: Based on retellings by seven-year-olds (N = 298), this contribution examines to what extent a model function for genre-specific means can be proven for children’s literary texts. The central questions of the study are how children perceive given contextualisation cues to identify the protagonist’s lying behavior in a previously read aloud text and in what way these are (re-) produced when children are asked to retell the story. The analysis is carried out both quantitatively with the aim of identifying verifiable adoptions from the linguistic model and qualitatively considering the linguistic variations with which children portray narrative figures as liars. Overall, the retellings provide an insight into the child’s dealing with lying in terms of discursive-linguistic, cognitive, emotional, and moral dimensions. The concluding discussion of methodological challenges provides further information for future studies on the exploration of supportive potentials of children’s literature.