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Development of a metonymy comprehension task

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ID3881617
AuthorsMaity Siqueira (0000-0002-8775-4563, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Tamara Melo (0000-0001-9545-5355, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina), Sergio Duarte Jr (0000-0002-8641-7338, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Sérgio Duarte (0000-0003-0392-8886, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Laura Baiocco (0000-0002-5221-257X, The University of Arizona, USA), Caroline Girardi Ferrari (0000-0003-3853-3673, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Nichele Lopes (0000-0002-3424-9387, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Year2023
Volume39
Issue3
Publication date2023-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-4450 • E-ISSN: 1678-460X
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1678-460x202339350607
OpenAlexW4386832396
SciELOS0102-44502023000300402
LanguageEN
References cited18

Metonymy is a pervasive linguistic/cognitive mechanism in everyday language. Still, studies assessing its comprehension are rare in the literature. Our goal is to present the elaboration of a verbal metonymy comprehension task in Brazilian Portuguese as well as test it using pilot studies. The task was based on the cognitive linguistics framework and psychometric guidelines were considered. The construction of the task considered psycholinguistic variables and included a conventionality task and an expert analysis. Three studies (N = 290, ages ranging 2 to 54 years old) were conducted until we reached a final version. The study resulted in a task composed of one practice item and six test items. Each item includes a sentence-stimulus and two questions (one open-ended and one closed-ended). Together, the items make up a raw score that represents metonymy comprehension. Data obtained from the pilot studies show that metonymy comprehension improves gradually with age and that there is a significant difference between items in both types of questions. This is in consonance with the literature, and thus points towards the instrument's construct validity. The study results in a task that presents enough sensitivity to gauge comprehension of this phenomenon at different ages

Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Linguistics · Metaphor · Metonymy · Natural language processing · Sentence · Task (project management) · Test (biology) · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · linguistics and terminology studies · Psychology

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