The article describes a study on metaphor and metonymy comprehension in subjects aged between 11 and 13 years, which involved 108 students in the 3 Junior High School grades. They were given a Metaphor Comprehension Test (TCM, Pinto, Melogno, Iliceto, 2006), a metonymy comprehension test and the Raven’s Progressive Matrices (Raven, 1982). Results showed a significant and parallel performance increase for the two metasemantic tests, strong correlations between the metasemantic and cognitive measures and a satisfactory Cronbach’s alpha for the metonymy Test.
La comprensione di metafore e di metonimie come abilità metalinguistiche complesse: uno studio esplorativo con ragazzi dagli 11 ai 13 anni / Pinto, Maria Antonietta; Melogno, Sergio; P., Iliceto. - In: LOGOPEDIA E COMUNICAZIONE. - ISSN 1825-6724. - STAMPA. - 7:2(2011), pp. 193-214.
La comprensione di metafore e di metonimie come abilità metalinguistiche complesse: uno studio esplorativo con ragazzi dagli 11 ai 13 anni.
PINTO, Maria Antonietta;MELOGNO, Sergio;
2011
Abstract
The article describes a study on metaphor and metonymy comprehension in subjects aged between 11 and 13 years, which involved 108 students in the 3 Junior High School grades. They were given a Metaphor Comprehension Test (TCM, Pinto, Melogno, Iliceto, 2006), a metonymy comprehension test and the Raven’s Progressive Matrices (Raven, 1982). Results showed a significant and parallel performance increase for the two metasemantic tests, strong correlations between the metasemantic and cognitive measures and a satisfactory Cronbach’s alpha for the metonymy Test.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
