Die ontwikkeling van 'n paradigma vir die skryf van 'n kinderverhaal
Abstract
This study is a first in South African Creative Writing. In the research the point of
departure is to be found in the structural elements which the American linguist, William
Labov, distinguished as underlying a well-structured oral narrative. These elements are
in the course of the study developed into a paradigm which can be used in the writing of
a children's story.
Against the background of the sociolinguistics of Labov's analysis, the elements are
further placed within the theoretical framework of speech act theory and Mary Louise
Pratt's narratological analysis. On the basis of the above study narratives are then
classified.
The elements are then also applied to children's literature. Published and unpublished
children's stories are analysed with reference to these elements and interviews done with
authors of children's stories. On the basis of the analyses the elements are developed
into a paradigm in the Creative Writing sense of the term.
Finally, the paradigm is explained within the framework of Creative Writing and then
used to create a children's story (which has been accepted for broadcasting) for the
purposes of the study.
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