Nhem, nhem, nhem, nhem. Playing with language as a deviance in babies meetings with books

Abstract

Language emerges in various dimensions, as the face of specificities that cross and constitute the meeting of babies with books. Based on a research fragment, this article aims to analyse the nature of playing with language as a deviance in babies meetings with child literary books, sometimes seen as sacralized artifacts of culture and, as such, safe from babies actions. The text focuses on the language as a child play, expression and way of being in the world, revealing subtleties of the game established by the baby in the process of insertion, participation and appropriation of culture. The analyses is based on Buber (1949, 1974), Benjamin (2011), Heller-Rozen (2010), among others authors.