This paper studies the Korean traditional children`s stories which are performed by members of a volunteer organization. These performances have two levels. One consists of verbal factors and the other nonverbal factors. Most of communication studies ...
This paper studies the Korean traditional children`s stories which are performed by members of a volunteer organization. These performances have two levels. One consists of verbal factors and the other nonverbal factors. Most of communication studies and performance studies focus on the verbal factors but this paper focuses on the other factors, too. The analysis of the performances has to consider not only text but also context. The stage of the performances is a library for children in Seoul. There are several volunteer organizations. Doggaebi gamto is one of them. It has thirteen members and they are over age 60. We choose two female tellers. Children responded very positively to their stories. They tells Korean traditional children`s stories every Saturday in a room which is located in the library. The room is their stage. Goffman is known for stage metaphor to convey his thoughts about social interactions. We divided the "front" and "backstage" and investigated their relations according to Goffman. Frist, this paper studies environmental and visual signs in the stage to analyse nonverbal factors. Second, this paper focuses on meta-narrations which reveal the teller-audience relations to analyse verbal factors. Finally, this paper explores the religious context and traditional context. And to conclude, the two teller`s performance have different code. One is vertical code and the other is horizontal code.