2021 Volume 37 Pages 1-16
Onomatopoeia used by caregivers should aim to develop the images of young children and to lead various movements. Therefore, there is a need to examine in detail the relationship between images and movements elicited by onomatopoeia. The purpose of this study was to reveal the relationship between images and movements of each young children from onomatopoeia focusing on the three types of relationship between the images and movements (Murase and Terayama, 2020) and the state of “jibun (myself)”. The participants of this study were 16 children aged 5 or 6 years. Each child was investigated for 6 types of onomatopoeia and observation. For the experiment, spoken images and movements of the infants were all video-recorded and transcribed. For the observation, each infant has observed about five situations. From the results obtained, the following two points were suggested. 1. There is the relationship between three types and the state of “jibun (myself)”. 2. On physical expression activity for young children, there is a possibility that the leading movement of “jibun-denai (not-myself)” from the image of “jibun-denai (not-myself)” connects various movements for children. Further, that a child can express the images or not is understood by two viewpoints. 1) the distance between the images and “jibun (myself)” 2) the developmental process that to be able to distinguish between “jibun (myself)” and others.
