This empricial research studies the ability of children aged 9 to 14 to explain the meaning of metaphors. This ability is viewed as a specific and explicit type of metalinguistic processing. A task of metaphor comprehension, composed of 12 items of different types of metaphors, some physico-psychological and some conceptual, has been created and administered together with some subtests of a validated Italian metalinguistic ability test for the same age range, the TAM-2 (Pinto, Candilera, Iliceto, 2003) and the Raven's SPM38. Results showed that metaphor comprehension significantly evolves across ages and strongly correlates with other metalinguistic tasks and with the SPM38.
Esplicitare la comprensione di metafore:uno studio evolutivo su soggetti dai 9 ai 14 anni / Pinto, Maria Antonietta; Melogno, Sergio; P., Iliceto. - In: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA. - ISSN 1592-1328. - STAMPA. - 2-3:(2003), pp. 53-81.
Esplicitare la comprensione di metafore:uno studio evolutivo su soggetti dai 9 ai 14 anni
PINTO, Maria Antonietta;MELOGNO, Sergio;
2003
Abstract
This empricial research studies the ability of children aged 9 to 14 to explain the meaning of metaphors. This ability is viewed as a specific and explicit type of metalinguistic processing. A task of metaphor comprehension, composed of 12 items of different types of metaphors, some physico-psychological and some conceptual, has been created and administered together with some subtests of a validated Italian metalinguistic ability test for the same age range, the TAM-2 (Pinto, Candilera, Iliceto, 2003) and the Raven's SPM38. Results showed that metaphor comprehension significantly evolves across ages and strongly correlates with other metalinguistic tasks and with the SPM38.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
