Context and the Development of Metaphor Comprehension
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19429136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stella Vosniadou (0000-0003-4850-8578, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 159-171 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Metaphor and Symbolic Activity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-7253 • E-ISSN: 2379-0288 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327868ms0403_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2093402866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 16 |
It is argued that metaphor comprehension is an interactive process that involves reliance not only on the metaphorical linguistic input but also on the linguistic and situational context in which it occurs.Even preschool children appear capable of using the information provided by the linguistic and situational context to make inferences about the meaning of metaphorical sentences.These inferences help children decide when a linguistic input should be interpreted nonliterally and provide them with clues about the metaphor's implied meaning.There is some evidence suggesting that young children can profit more from a situational context than a linguistic context in interpreting metaphors and that reliance on the situational and linguistic context decreases with increases in the knowledge base.Further research is, however, needed to substantiate these findings and to discover the mechanisms thereby which children make use of contextual information to construct the meaning of a metaphorical linguistic input
Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Linguistics · Metaphor · Situational ethics · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |