Az osztenzív stimulusok szerepe a mesék átadásában és megértésében

Abstract

The hypothesis underlying the present study is that culturally relevant knowledge in stories and tales can spread only if the storyteller is able to raise and keep the audience’s attention with the right story telling strategies— facilitating in this way the processing of information intended to be transferred in the story (Sperber 1996; Ivaskó–Papp 2017). The most important question of this study is to investigate the nature of storytelling. Results of the experiment carried out with pre-school children prove that the appropriate ostensive stimuli (Sperber–Wilson 1995) in the storytelling situation are crucial to creating and maintaining the scene of joint attention (Tomasello 1999). Data show that baby talk prosody in storytelling and keeping eye contact are such ostensive stimuli in early childhood.