The Humor Performance of young children

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 人類發展與家庭學系在職進修碩士班 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to explore spontaneous humor performance of young children in natural settings ,and the relation to ’’activity”, ’’age” and humor performance of young children .The study uses natural observation to have the spontaneous hu...

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Main Authors: Chen Chiao Mei, 陳巧湄
Other Authors: Chien Shu-Chen
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/crukdv
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 人類發展與家庭學系在職進修碩士班 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to explore spontaneous humor performance of young children in natural settings ,and the relation to ’’activity”, ’’age” and humor performance of young children .The study uses natural observation to have the spontaneous humor performance from 30 young children at outdoor, corner, meal time, etc. The study found two humor styles of young children:(a)Based on the individual feature and behavior pattern , the study concluded that the humor behavior would be primarily classified into 6 types: distracting humor、self-criticized humor、self-entertaining humor、external entertaining humor、devalued humor、and sharing humor. The「sharing humor」 is the top type in this humor styles.(b)The humor behavior would be analyzed based on the factors of which cause children laugh, and classified in 4 patterns: discussion of prohibited and popular topic, self-superiority, fantastic speaking and action, and vocabulary or voice games, etc. The「fantastic speaking and action」 is the top type in this humor styles. Humor characteristics of young children has 10 patterns: self-entertaining、to sneer at other、reconcilable conflict、originality、substitutive、successive、popularity、influential、accumulative、mixable and developmental。In different activities, young children have different humorous behavior in accordance with situation. It has no dependence that the age, friendship with humor styles. It is suggested that continue to make qualitative research at young children’s humorous study in different teaching types, in order to explore more children's humorous behavior and humorous characteristics.