Cristina Cacciari
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1751968 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cristina Cacciari |
| PRENOMES | Cristina |
| SOBRENOME | Cacciari |
| ASSINATURA | CACCIARI C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5506-244X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A consensus-based transparency checklist
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository
Author Correction
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
Il linguaggio letterale e figurato nelle descrizioni dell'esperienza sensoriale
The Role of Literal and Figurative Language Olfaction is still the less investigated of the sensory modalities. This also reflects the fact that olfaction is the most subjective and emotional sensory modality and the one with the fewer relationships with verbal language. Since metaphors are cognitive bridges between perception and language, in principle they might be more effective in giving voice to olfaction, the "speechless sense". However, re…
When Dogs Can Fly
How do people recognize metaphors? In nominal metaphors, such as "My lawyer is a shark," the metaphor vehicle "shark" refers to an abstract category of predatory creatures, not to the basic-level concept, the literal fish we call "shark." People can use the level of abstraction of the metaphor vehicle (shark) as a cue that the expression is intended metaphorically rather than literally (Glucksberg & Keysar, 1990). Can the metaphorical use of verb…
When Color Names Are Used Metaphorically
Four experiments investigated the integration of chromatic with linguistic and conceptual information in the interpretation of narratives where color names were used metaphorically. The texts were visually presented with 5 shades of the color metaphorically used in the narratives. Participants were asked to choose the shade expressively most appropriate to the story content (Experiment 1) or to rank the appropriateness of each shade (Experiment 2…
The creation of new figurative expressions
According to a developmental model of figurative language acquisition – the GLOBAL ELABORATION MODEL (Levorato & Cacciari, 1995) – the metalinguistic awareness necessary to use figurative language in a creative way is acquired late, and is subsequent to the ability to comprehend and produce figurative expressions. One hundred and eight children aged 9;6, one hundred and twenty-four children aged 11;3, one hundred and twelve adolescents aged 18;5 …
Figurative Language and Thought
Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, many traditional theories on these issues have been challenged on the basis of figurative language research. This research has prompted such fundamental questions as: is met…
Figurative language and thought
The Effect of Semantic Analyzability of Idioms in Metalinguistic Tasks
Fifth graders' and adults' abilities to assign an interpretation and explain and motivate an idiom' s meaning were investigated with idioms characterized by different degrees of semantic analyzability. By semantic analyzability, we mean the extent to which the meanings of the words forming an idiom contribute to its figurative interpretation. Forty-five Italian 5th graders and 15 adults participated in this study and were asked to (a) provide a p…
Semantic productivity and idiom comprehension
When people understand an idiom such as “spill the beans,” two kinds of meaning are simultaneously apprehended: the meanings of the words themselves and the idiomatic meaning. Standard models of language comprehension assume that the literal meanings of figurative expressions are rejected in favor of a nonliteral meaning. We propose an alternative approach in which literal meanings are systematically used to constrain the use and variation of con…
Children's comprehension and production of idioms
Several studies have argued that children under the ages of nine or ten years rarely comprehend figurative language and therefore interpret it literally. Cacciari & Levorato (1989). showed that when idioms are presented within a rich informational environment, children are able to grasp the figurative sense at the age of seven, and also that children are less able to produce idioms than to comprehend them. In three experiments involving 264 child…
How children understand idioms in discourse
Some studies have shown that children tend to interpret figurative language literally. Our hypothesis is that they can reach an idiomatic competence if idioms are presented within a rich informational environment allowing children to grasp their figurative sense. First and third graders were presented with narratives biased both to the figurative meaning of idioms (experiment 1) and to the literal meaning (experiment 2) and then given a comprehen…
The comprehension of idioms
Semantic productivity and idiom comprehension
When people understand an idiom such as “spill the beans,” two kinds of meaning are simultaneously apprehended: the meanings of the words themselves and the idiomatic meaning. Standard models of language comprehension assume that the literal meanings of figurative expressions are rejected in favor of a nonliteral meaning. We propose an alternative approach in which literal meanings are systematically used to constrain the use and variation of con…
A consensus-based transparency checklist
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository
The comprehension of idioms
How children understand idioms in discourse
Some studies have shown that children tend to interpret figurative language literally. Our hypothesis is that they can reach an idiomatic competence if idioms are presented within a rich informational environment allowing children to grasp their figurative sense. First and third graders were presented with narratives biased both to the figurative meaning of idioms (experiment 1) and to the literal meaning (experiment 2) and then given a comprehen…
Children's comprehension and production of idioms
Several studies have argued that children under the ages of nine or ten years rarely comprehend figurative language and therefore interpret it literally. Cacciari & Levorato (1989). showed that when idioms are presented within a rich informational environment, children are able to grasp the figurative sense at the age of seven, and also that children are less able to produce idioms than to comprehend them. In three experiments involving 264 child…
Semantic productivity and idiom comprehension
When people understand an idiom such as “spill the beans,” two kinds of meaning are simultaneously apprehended: the meanings of the words themselves and the idiomatic meaning. Standard models of language comprehension assume that the literal meanings of figurative expressions are rejected in favor of a nonliteral meaning. We propose an alternative approach in which literal meanings are systematically used to constrain the use and variation of con…
Figurative Language and Thought
Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, many traditional theories on these issues have been challenged on the basis of figurative language research. This research has prompted such fundamental questions as: is met…
Figurative language and thought
The Effect of Semantic Analyzability of Idioms in Metalinguistic Tasks
Fifth graders' and adults' abilities to assign an interpretation and explain and motivate an idiom' s meaning were investigated with idioms characterized by different degrees of semantic analyzability. By semantic analyzability, we mean the extent to which the meanings of the words forming an idiom contribute to its figurative interpretation. Forty-five Italian 5th graders and 15 adults participated in this study and were asked to (a) provide a p…
The creation of new figurative expressions
According to a developmental model of figurative language acquisition – the GLOBAL ELABORATION MODEL (Levorato & Cacciari, 1995) – the metalinguistic awareness necessary to use figurative language in a creative way is acquired late, and is subsequent to the ability to comprehend and produce figurative expressions. One hundred and eight children aged 9;6, one hundred and twenty-four children aged 11;3, one hundred and twelve adolescents aged 18;5 …
When Color Names Are Used Metaphorically
Four experiments investigated the integration of chromatic with linguistic and conceptual information in the interpretation of narratives where color names were used metaphorically. The texts were visually presented with 5 shades of the color metaphorically used in the narratives. Participants were asked to choose the shade expressively most appropriate to the story content (Experiment 1) or to rank the appropriateness of each shade (Experiment 2…
When Dogs Can Fly
How do people recognize metaphors? In nominal metaphors, such as "My lawyer is a shark," the metaphor vehicle "shark" refers to an abstract category of predatory creatures, not to the basic-level concept, the literal fish we call "shark." People can use the level of abstraction of the metaphor vehicle (shark) as a cue that the expression is intended metaphorically rather than literally (Glucksberg & Keysar, 1990). Can the metaphorical use of verb…
Il linguaggio letterale e figurato nelle descrizioni dell'esperienza sensoriale
The Role of Literal and Figurative Language Olfaction is still the less investigated of the sensory modalities. This also reflects the fact that olfaction is the most subjective and emotional sensory modality and the one with the fewer relationships with verbal language. Since metaphors are cognitive bridges between perception and language, in principle they might be more effective in giving voice to olfaction, the "speechless sense". However, re…
A consensus-based transparency checklist
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository
Author Correction
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (11 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Cognitive psychology (7 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Literal and figurative language (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Comprehension (6 obras) · Cognition (4 obras) · Metaphor (4 obras)