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Tourangeau, Roger; Sternberg, Robert J. – 1978
Defining metaphor as "seeing a concept from one class in terms of a concept from another class," a study was devised that analyzed the degree to which two concepts occupy dissimilar positions with respect to their category or domain (within-domain distance), and the degree to which categories themselves are dissimilar (between-domain distance).…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Peer reviewedBaldwin, R. Scott; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Presents results of a study of fifth-grade students' ability to interpret novel metaphors and similes when provided with a subschemata of semantic attributes. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Figurative Language, Grade 5
Download full textOrtony, Andrew – 1979
The standard dictionary definition of a metaphor--a word or phrase applied to an object or concept that it does not literally denote in order to suggest comparison with another object or concept--is inadequate in that it does not deal with whole sentence metaphors and that it provides no way of distinguishing between a metaphor and a semantic…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Context Clues, Definitions
Peer reviewedSvedman, Shirley – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Context Clues, Correlation, Critical Reading
