A narrative approach to the discourse of children’s rights. Violations of basic rights are explored with regard to the so-called “street children”. Working from a constructivist notion of children as capable members of local subcultures, the paper aims to give them voice. A corpus of web-distributed accounts is examined both manually and through concordancing.Based on the Labovian approach to narrative syntax as well as on more recent narratological perspectives within a broad pragmalinguistic view of language as action.
Personal Narratives in Children's Rights Discourse
CORTESE, Giuseppina
2008-01-01
Abstract
A narrative approach to the discourse of children’s rights. Violations of basic rights are explored with regard to the so-called “street children”. Working from a constructivist notion of children as capable members of local subcultures, the paper aims to give them voice. A corpus of web-distributed accounts is examined both manually and through concordancing.Based on the Labovian approach to narrative syntax as well as on more recent narratological perspectives within a broad pragmalinguistic view of language as action.
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