The study of communicative activities concerning with Gender among five years old children

The aim of this research is to investigate and define how five-year-old children deal with about Gender in some interactional scenes. To approach the result of this research, I have observed children in playing scenes at a kindergarten, and have collected 33 episodes which include their discourses and actions concerning with Gender. I pick up five of the episodes and analyze them, in which gender and its special trait could be seen typically. As a result, I recognize that the children understand gender stereotypically. They also find out that taboos in it, and use it as materials for 'laughs' and 'kidding'. By means of repeated uses of Gender as mentioned above, they strengthen Gender with one another and reproduce it. The usage of gender for 'laughs' and 'kidding' at a time can make the children understand the senses of values and social meanings of Gender. That may also have the possibility to make the discriminations or the power structures