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“Don't Cry, You're Not a Baby!”: Emotion, Role and Hierarchy in Korean Language Socialisation Practice
Author(s) -
Ahn Junehui
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12125
Subject(s) - hierarchy , construct (python library) , psychology , socialization , association (psychology) , social psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , economics , market economy , psychotherapist , programming language
I examine how South Korean children learn culturally specific emotional knowledge, especially affective hierarchy and the association between emotional displays and social roles, through participation in peer talk. An analysis of children's and teachers’ everyday emotional discourses shows that children, rather than passively adopting adult emotional discourses, creatively employ a range of linguistic and communicative features regarding emotions to construct their own culture‐laden emotional world. Findings articulate the role children's peer talk has in cultural reproduction and dynamic aspects of the language socialisation processes.