This study focuses on Taiwanese nursery rhymes. In addition to lullabies and nursery rhymes, it also includes rhymes and songs chanted to pray for good fortune at birth rituals and those sung to teach and encourage children.
Most of the rhymes and songs discussed here, including those pronounced in Taiwanese (the Hokkien language in Taiwan) and Hakka, are popular in Taiwan and passed down from generation to generation. Some nursery rhymes and songs in Mandarin and in other Taiwan aboriginal languages are also included to make necessary comparisons.
First, this study analyzes the sentence arrangement, structure, rhythm, and presentation of these nursery rhymes in order to examine their structure characteristics. Based on their contents, then, they are classified into five categories: lullabies, colic care songs and rhymes, playtime songs and rhymes, prayer songs and rhymes, as well as value-teaching songs and rhymes. The five categories are examined and analyzed, and their cultural backgrounds explored. Finally, based on the structures, contents, and embedded cultures of these nursery rhymes, their values are discussed and presented.
This research contains six chapters:
Chapter 1: Introduction. It broadly introduces the content and the structure of this research.
Chapter 2: A Structural Analysis of the Nursery Rhymes. This chapter focuses on the characteristics of these nursery rhymes: sentence arrangements, structures, rhythm, and presentation skills.
Chapter 3: A Content Analysis of the Nursery Rhymes. Based on the content, each rhyme is classified and analyzed.
Chapter 4: Cultures in the Nursery Rhymes. This chapter discusses some embedded cultural activities such as birth and marriage in nursery rhymes to explore the relationships between ethnic cultures and their individual rhymes.
Chapter 5: Values of the Nursery Rhymes. The values of nursery rhymes are examined from the aspects of education, life, and ethnic cultures.
Chapter 6: Conclusion. The significance and implications of this research as well as its future extended research are discussed in this chapter.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0701105-085040 |
| Date | 01 July 2005 |
| Creators | chang, chen-yi |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0701105-085040 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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