LINGUISTIC FEATURES ABOUT THE BEHAVIOR, GESTURES OF CHILDREN'S CHARACTERS USED BY THE NARRATOR (Through the corpus “the collection of good Vietnamese short stories for children")

Abstract

The article is based on theories of communication, children, and children's characters in children's short stories to find out the linguistic features of children's characters' behavior, gestures used by the narrator. From surveying and classifying children's language, we differentiate the narrator's children's language and analyze the following aspects: children’s communication situations, communication roles, communication themes, address form behavior and language actions and words, gestures. Research results show that children's language is diverse in terms of expression and aims to clarify children's appearance and personality from the narrator's point of view. Children's characters appear with innocence, youthfulness, carrying in them the desires and innocent personalities of youth.