Hyperbole and Humor in Children's Language Play.(Statistical Data Included)

Journal of Research in Childhood Education | March 22, 2000| | Copyright

Abstract. This study examines the processes by which preschool children initiate, organize, and maintain language play interactions. The language behaviors examined are verbal hyperbole, whereby play interactions are initiated by a child's assertion of extraordinary ability, with subsequent responses between participants enlarging the scope of the claim. As children voice incongruities of greater proportion, the emotional climate of the play is heightened and ingenious verbal representations are provoked. From the analysis, developmental features of hyperbolic language play ...

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