"My Name Is ... ": Picturebooks Exploring Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Names ...

被引:2
作者
Thomas, Carrie Anne [1 ,3 ]
Samjose, Blessy [2 ]
机构
[1] Ohio State Univ, Teaching & Learning Literature Children & Young Ad, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[2] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[3] Ohio State Univ, Dept Teaching & Learning, 172 Arps Hall,1945 North High St, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
来源
NAMES-A JOURNAL OF ONOMASTICS | 2022年 / 70卷 / 04期
关键词
diversity; picturebooks; content analysis; socio-onomastics; Rudine Sims Bishop; Eve Tuck; IDENTITY;
D O I
10.5195/names.2022.2468
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
A child's personal name is an integral part of their identity. Names and name negotiation in children's picturebooks can explore this connection by narrativizing the impact of positive and negative experiences involving name-carriers, name-givers, and name-users. In this study, we began with a framework combining a socio-onomastic perspective with the children's literature metaphor of "mirrors and windows" (Bishop 1990) and the educational research concept of "damage and desire" narratives (Tuck 2009). Our content analysis of twelve picturebooks featuring characters with culturally and linguistically diverse names led to a coding scheme of six common episodes of name negotiation in the picturebooks' narrative arcs: (1) inflicted damage; (2) internalized damage; (3) supplying desire; (4) internalized desire; (5) asserting the desire; and (6) joining the desire. Our findings highlight how episodes of damage focus on the pain, sadness, and struggle name-carriers undergo, while episodes of desire center the support of parents and teachers as well as detailed cultural and familial information about names. We conclude that while both "damage and desire" episodes contribute to the narratives, too heavy a focus on damage could lead to the perpetuation of a "single story" (Adichie 2009) that normalizes pain and struggle as an inevitable experience for children with linguistically and culturally diverse names.
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