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The Playground in Court Discourse: A Reconnaissance Towards the Study of the Social Representation of Childhood
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Old court documents are an accepted source for studying the culture of their time. Contemporary judgments hold analogous value, though they often remain an undervalued source outside legal circles. Judicial decisions are both the result of social processes and social processes themselves, creating concrete results. This text presents an interdisciplinary research reconnaissance, the initial findings from an initial resource mapping. Remarkably, it uncovers a substantial amount of material for observing the playground as a cultural phenomenon. New research fields have emerged through the application of discourse analysis and social representation theories. This paper describes the playground through its attributes, utilising a sample of 130 court decisions (selected from nearly a thousand relating to the playground), grouped into antonymic pairs. The paper also indicates that the playground phenomenon is a crucial element of contemporary social representations of childhood and offers insights into the inherent tensions within this representation.
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childhood, language, social representations, culture, societyDetails
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