Children and Metaphors.

摘要: VOSNIADOU, STELLA. Children and Metaphors. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1987, 58, 870-885. Recent research on the development of children's abilities to comprehend produce metaphorical language is reviewed. It argued that ability emerges out undifferentiated similarity notions develops gradually encompass a greater variety conceptual domains. Although we do not yet have adequate theories how metaphor comprehension or production develop, there good reason believe this continuous rather than stagelike process, it constrained primarily by limitations in knowledge information-processing abilities. Furthermore, appears involve transfer from one domain another which, hand, depends critically child already has, other acts enrich advance knowledge.