1st Edition
Developmental Perspectives on Metaphor A Special Issue of metaphor and Symbolic Activity
Edited By Ellen Winner
Copyright 1996
92 Pages
by
Psychology Press
92 Pages
by
Psychology Press
92 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Research on the development of metaphor abilities in children can be dated back as far as 1960, with Asch and Nerlove's pioneering study, which concluded that children were unable to understand metaphors until middle or even late childhood. However, the study of metaphor in children did not take off until the 1970s; research continued to show metaphor as a relatively late-developing skill, based... Read more
Volume 10, Number 4, 1995
Contents: E. Winner, Introduction. A. de Groot, J. Kaplan, E. Rosenblatt, S. Dews, E. Winner, Understanding Versus Discriminating Nonliteral Utterances: Evidence for a Dissociation. F.G.E. Happé, Understanding Minds and Metaphors: Insights From the Study of Figurative Language in Autism. S. Vosniadou, Analogical Reasoning in Cognitive Development. V.F. Reyna, B. Kiernan, Children's Memory and Metaphorical Interpretation.
Contents: E. Winner, Introduction. A. de Groot, J. Kaplan, E. Rosenblatt, S. Dews, E. Winner, Understanding Versus Discriminating Nonliteral Utterances: Evidence for a Dissociation. F.G.E. Happé, Understanding Minds and Metaphors: Insights From the Study of Figurative Language in Autism. S. Vosniadou, Analogical Reasoning in Cognitive Development. V.F. Reyna, B. Kiernan, Children's Memory and Metaphorical Interpretation.
Biography
Ellen Winner
