Children's Experience of Speaking=Expressing Their Own 'Innocence' : Starting from the Children's Living Condition of 'Communication Insufficiency' II

Abstract

The present thesis focuses on what type of experience it is for today's children as subjects of communication to recover their faculty of speaking=expressing to others when they are m the difficult condition of "communication insufficiency". This is accomplished by first discussing the "innocence" theory introduced by SERIZAWA, Shunsuke, which is then considered by reference to the observation of KATOH, Norihiro on this theory. Based on these findings, the thesis specifies how important it is for the subject-children to find their own "voice", when they are in a sphere where the normative langue has not been established yet. This event is then redefined as an experience of "signifiance" suggested by Julia Kristeva. Further discussed is the role of the arts as a medium to induce such an experience.