Of Falls and Injuries: An Ethnopoetic Analysis of Narratives of Personal Experience in Spanish-Speaking Argentine Children’
This study analyzes children’s narrative discourse of personal experience in Spanish-speaking Argentine children aged 3 to 5 years, considering its structural and rhetorical characteristics from an ethnopoetic approach and stanza analysis. Oral narratives of 120 children in different socioeconomic c...
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| Formato: | Artículo revista |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Subsecretaría de publicaciones. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. UBA
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/iice/article/view/16971 |
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| Sumario: | This study analyzes children’s narrative discourse of personal experience in Spanish-speaking Argentine children aged 3 to 5 years, considering its structural and rhetorical characteristics from an ethnopoetic approach and stanza analysis. Oral narratives of 120 children in different socioeconomic circumstances, obtained through individual semi-structured interviews in their educational institutions, were analyzed. The narratives were transcribed and segmented into terminal units, and then into verses, stanzas and episodes. The results reveal the presence of three narrative patterns: cyclical (49.2%), canonical (30.8%) and associative (20%), with a predominance of evaluative (46.7%) and descriptive (37.5%) information over chronological (15.8%). Children aged 5 years produce the three patterns in similar measures, while younger children show a predominance of the cyclical pattern. Children in vulnerabilized contexts tend to produce cyclical and descriptive narratives, while those in non-vulnerabilized circumstances produce more canonical and evaluative narratives. This paper highlights the particularities of the narratives of Spanish-speaking Argentine children, underscoring the need for situated approaches that consider the sociocultural context of narrative production. These findings are key to developing an instrument for the assessment of children's narrative discourse that is sensitive to the linguistic and cultural diversity of this population. |
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