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Childhood and adolescence in a formative perspective (Bildungsroman…
Childhood and adolescence in a formative perspective
Dictionaries and vocabularies
Dictionaries
The importance of oral explanation and practical experimentation (this idea became extremely popular)
Discussion of what words that is included/appropriate for children. Abstract ideas and words were seen as hard to explain and/or analyse for children
Original purpose: pedagogical (for school pupils): Memorization vs internalizing ideological patterns (contextualizing - real life experiences)
Development where compilers of children's dictionaries were increasingly aware of the problems with the memorization method.
Regarded as twentieth century phenomena
Nineteenth century: active tool for teaching literacy, not only for reference
Bildungsroman
Focused on the interior or spiritual growth of one character. Not on physical or cultural growth.
A novel that has as its main theme the formative years or spiritual education of one person (a type of novel traditional in German literature).
A journey. Through the book (events, characters, views) the reader explores the world.
Insofar as the word
bildung
itself is related to
Bild
and
Bildnis
, it may connote 'picture' or 'portrait' as well as 'shaping' or 'formation'. Sculpting and painting are both embodied processes that require brains, arms, and hands to work together to create the finished product.
Positive and negative metaphors of embodiment.
White, male: both positive and negative. Marginalized groups (people of colour, women): more negative.
The
Bildungsroman
offers an entertaining story of a young person's coming of age, moving from innocence to experience, with lost illusions and great expectations, while making his or her way in the world.
A didactic novel. Educates the reader by portraying the education of the protagonist
Combines the general and the specific. This helps to make the hero - a specific, even remarkable individual - into a general or representative Everyman.
The protagonists own
Bildung
is very much a collective effort
Cognition and embodiment
Embodiment
Metaphors of growth demonstrate how we use the language of embodiment to ground fictional processes both cognitively and physically.
We know the world through our bodies and we explain the world though our words.
Cognition
Cognitive science: The discipline that studies conceptual systems: meaning construction
Categorization (mapping one concept onto another):
Source domain
Target domain
By mapping in this way we change how we think about the primary idea
Growth
Growing up: Physically and psychologically, emotionally and cognitively
Growth as a pervasive theme in children's and YA fiction
Adolescent hero: "transitional period" with a mind "half-child, half-adult".
Aktuell litteratur
Primærlitteratur
Chichester-Clark (2005) Barnas store engelske ordbok
Wilby (1844) The infant School Spelling Book
Comenius (2006) Orbid Sensalium Pictus
Rowling (2007) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Barrow (1829) A Popular Dictionary
Faglitteratur
Iversen (2014) Do you understand this
Black (2003) The Magic of Harry Potter
Tally (2012) The Way of the Wizarding World
Trites (2014) Growth, Cognitive Linguistics
Sekundær litteratur