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Direct linkPérez-Hernández, Lorena; Duvignau, Karine – First Language, 2016
The present study looks into the largely unexplored territory of the cognitive underpinnings of semantic approximations in child language. The analysis of a corpus of 233 semantic approximations produced by 101 monolingual French-speaking children from 1;8 to 4;2 years of age leads to a classification of a significant number of them as instances…
Descriptors: French, Monolingualism, Child Language, Figurative Language
Download full textKaradag, Ruhan; Gültekin, Mehmet – Online Submission, 2012
The aim of this study is to investigate metaphors that elementary school 5th and 8th grade students (N = 567) use in order to describe the term "teacher". The data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions, and analyzed using qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques. Content analysis technique was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Figurative Language, Grade 5
Geldard, Kathryn; Foo, Rebecca Yin; Shakespeare-Finch, Jane – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2009
Counselling children often requires the use of supplementary strategies in order to interest and engage the child in the therapeutic process. One such strategy is the Metaphorical Fruit Tree (MFT); an art metaphor suited to exploring and developing self-concept. Quantitative and qualitative data was used to explore the relationships between…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Children, Figurative Language, Self Concept
