本論文主要目的，主要探究黃貴潮兒歌歌詞與兒童文化相關問題的分析。

本文的焦點首先以生命史觀點詮釋黃貴潮的其人其事；其次以文本分析法探究黃貴潮兒歌歌詞內容的特質；其三則以結構分析探討黃貴潮兒歌與阿美族兒童文學的關係；最後，根據前三項結果再闡明黃貴潮在原住民族兒童文學發展史上的定位與貢獻。因此，本論文的重要性有三點，分述如下 ：

1、提昇了原住民族兒童文學在台灣兒童文學上存在的價值。

2、整理出黃貴潮兒歌與阿美族兒童文化的關係，並做出系統化的作品分析。 3、肯定黃貴潮在原住民族兒童文學發展史上的重要地位與貢獻。

根據本論文研究結果得到以下結論：

一、黃貴潮兒歌與兒童文學關係極為密切

黃貴潮所創作的兒歌歌詞內容，涵蓋兒童文學的四項特質及兒歌本身五項特質，除文學性為共有的特質外，尚包括兒童性、教育性、遊戲性、趣味性、淺易性、音樂性及實用性共八項特質，創作內容極為多樣化，也兼具教育價值、生命教育、兩性教育及性教育的素材，在兒歌創作的作品中，以跳脫了純音樂性特質，而提昇至兒童文學多面向的層次。

二、黃貴潮兒歌與阿美族兒童文化的作用

阿美族社會文化結構中的兒童年齡階層、嬰兒命名禮及豐年祭的活動過程中，所呈現的文化特質即如精神文化、物質文化、技術文化對黃貴潮兒歌內容歌詞的作用，也彰顯了兒歌在原住民族的生活的體現，足以證明阿美族兒童的生活即是文學的社會文化特質。

三、黃貴潮的貢獻

（一） 累積了阿美族兒童文化史的良好典範。

（二） 應用文化人類學觀點完成阿美族兒歌之旅且具有文學的創作作品。

（三） 黃貴潮是原住民族兒童文學發展史上的領航著，也是第一位以原住民身分

將阿美族兒歌由口傳文學的層次提昇至文字化層次，再由文字化創作作品，公開發表問世的階段，成為原住民族第一位作家與主流兒童文學家對話的人物。

[ 英文摘要 ]

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and the children’s literature. As to the outline, the life story of Guey-Chao Huang was first put to the focus. Secondly, the characteristics of children’s songs by Guey-Chao Huang were examined with text-analysis method. Then, the relationship between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and Amis children’s culture was explored with structure analysis. In the end, based on the result from former analysis, Guey-Chao Huang’s position and contribution to aboriginal children’s culture was discussed. Therefore, there are three key-points in this paper:

1. To construct the value of aboriginal children’s culture in children’s culture of Taiwan.

2. To find out the relationship between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and Amis children’s culture. Furthermore, the composition by Guey-Chao Huang was systematically analyzed.

3. To confirm the important position and contribution that Guey-Chao Huang has done on the developmental history of aboriginal children’s culture.

Based on the results of this study, this author makes the following conclusion:

1. There is close relationship between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and children’s culture

The words of Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs cover four characteristics of children’s literature and five characteristics of children’s songs. Besides the common literary part, They are childlike, educational, playful, interesting, plain, musical and practical. Guey-Chao Huang’s work is full of different contents. They cover educational value, life education, gender education and sex education. Besides music, Huang’s work also has literary taste.

2. The interaction between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and Amis children’s culture

Cultural characteristics revealed from the process of children’s activities, infant naming ceremony and harvest festival have influence on Guey-Chao Huang’s work. The culture includes psychological culture, material culture and technical culture. Guey-Chao Huang’s work manifest the realization of aboriginal life and prove that the Amis children’s life is the social cultural essence of literature.

3. Cotribution done by Guey-Chao Huang

(1) Set a good model for Amis children’s culture

(2) Apply the viewpoints of cultural anthropology to compose Amis children’s songs as well as literary work

(3) Guey-Chao Huang is the navigator of aboriginal children’s literature. He is also the first aborigine to transform Amis children’s songs from oral to written work. As well, the written work was put to public. Dialogue between aboriginal literature and mainstream children’s literature was therefore made.