A Study on the Lexical Features and Value of Thai Nursery Rhymes

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201127.098How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Thai nursery rhymes, diction, value

Abstract

As an important literary form, nursery rhymes play an important guiding and exemplary role in children’s education and can help to teach children some common sense and cultivate their good habits. All countries in the world have their own unique nursery rhymes. This paper classifies nursery rhymes about animals, natural phenomena and daily life in Thailand. By using induction, typical research and comparative analysis, this paper concludes that the words used in Thai nursery rhymes are simple and popular, with a general use of mimetic word, modal particle, reduplication or repetition, and personification and figurative rhetoric. In terms of value, different Thai nursery rhymes play different roles, but their main purpose is to teach children some life knowledge, help them develop good living and learning habits, and guide children to establish a good moral character.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhaoyang Duan
AU  - Wenjin Xu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - A Study on the Lexical Features and Value of Thai Nursery Rhymes
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 498
EP  - 506
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.098
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.098
ID  - Duan2020
ER  -