Norm deviation in children's poetry based on Leach's theory

By breaking the everyday and known language standards, the poet or writer takes the language away from the norm of normal speech and gives it a new shape and color; In such a view of the poem, we encounter deviation from the norm. Norm avoidance, as it is related to determining proportions with different styles, also finds special coordinates in children"s poetry. In order to distinguish literary language and poetry from normal and mechanical language as much as possible, the norm-avoidance technique requires more use of highlighting and de-familiarization. Geoffrey Leach for the first time determined eight types of norm avoidance and tried to show that the prominence of the text and moving away from the automaticity of the text occurs at eight levels: lexical, syntactic, phonetic, written, semantic, dialectal, stylistic and temporal. In this article, norm deviation in children"s poetry is examined based on Leach"s theory.

The method of this research will be descriptive-analytical, and the method of collecting information in a library-like manner relies on study and comparison to get the foundations of theory explanation and then analyze them.

In children"s poetry, the use of less commonly used words or words that are suitable for children"s tone and language are examples of lexical deviation. When the poet is trying to direct the audience"s mind from the message to the text, he uses a wide variety of semantic avoidance. Although the child does not understand imaginary arrays, the mental images resulting from metaphors and similes are attractive and entertaining for him. The use of words of geographical dialects causes the dialect deviation of the text, but this type of deviation is very rare in children"s poetry.

The most specific and appropriate form of stylistic deviation in children"s poetry is the use of colloquial and colloquial words, which the child is more familiar with. Abnormality of time is less seen in children"s poetry.