Conceptual Metaphors in Psycholinguistic Study: Stage Model of Information Processing

Maretha, Carla; Wahyuningsih, Yulia

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“…Here the target domain refers to the starting point or the described concept of the metaphor, which is the cognitive concrete category or abstract category; While the source domain is the specific category, which is used to compare the target domain. It is due to the existence of cross-domain mappings that we can think and talk about one domain, which is Conceptual Metaphor Theory ( Coats, 2019 ; Conrad and Libarkin, 2022 ; Maretha and Wahyuningsih, 2023 ). This mapping evidences the idiosyncratic manner in which children actively engage in the creative depiction of reality, thereby contributing to their epistemic construction.…”

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An empirical study on the development of metaphorical comprehension of Chinese children

Cheng,

Guan,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Metaphor affects how people focus, remember, and process information and significantly influences children’s language development. The study explored metaphorical comprehension by Chinese children of different ages (5–8 years). We collected response times and accuracy rates when they processed metaphorical and literal sentences with the graded salience. Linear mixed-effects modeling showed that Chinese children’s metaphorical ability improved with age. Subsequent analysis found that the perception period of metaphorical knowledge was at age 5, the development stage of metaphorical knowledge was at age 6 and 7, and the rational decision period of metaphorical ability was at age 8. After 8-year-old, children can invoke the knowledge of the intention schema while activating the source domain, and this knowledge can be automatically and quickly mapped to the target domain. Meanwhile, language development and cognitive processing influenced the metaphorical comprehension of Chinese children, especially children of 8 years of age who had the highest correct rate and the shortest reaction time to process low-saliency metaphorical sentences, while 5-year-old children had the highest accuracy in high-saliency metaphorical sentence and 6-year-old children got the longest reaction time to process sentence in high-saliency metaphor. This study may provide evidence for improving and training metaphor comprehension in children with special needs such as those with an autism spectrum disorder.

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