Suggests that a metaphor is a hypothesis, a tentative description of reality." (Author/RD)

Thirty-six children from grades K, three, and six rated their preferences of nine figures of speech after being administered standardized IQ and creativity tests. Children's appreciation of figurative language starts at a nonverbal creativity level but turns to operational reasoning and changes in cognitive development. (CE)

Examines the history of word games, their various forms, and analyzes their comic nature as a breakdown of normal communication processes. (AM)

A British woman recounts her difficulties in developing the ability to understand humorous French while living in France. (AM)

Challenges the contention of science that scientific language eliminates figurative language and, instead, demonstrates the relationship of metaphor, models, and analogy to scientific concepts. (AM)

Concerns itself with the place of literature in aesthetic education along with the potential roles to be played by literary and dramatic forms in interdisciplinary programs. Suggests that literature is most likely to be constituted as an art form and taught as an art form within a program of aesthetic education. (Author/RK)

Discusses how to assess student poetry, focusing on the qualities of internal logic, tone, music words, figurative language, stanzas, line length, space, detail, voice, and "life." (MM)

This paper sketches the fundamental characteristics of metaphorical language which enable it to subserve not only the shaping of particular discourses, but also crucial aspects of our powers of enquiry and understanding. It argues that without metaphorical creativity we cannot make adequate sense of the more complex and open-ended aspects of our…

In this article the author interprets a teaching story, written over a decade ago, about a troubling student who failed her course. Using George Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's cognitive linguistic theory, she shows how the conceptual metaphors implicit in her interactions with the student prevented her from responding helpfully to the student's…

Given growing interest in narrative counselling, narrative theories of the self have received much attention. In this study, adolescents describe self through the construction of self-metaphors. The project explores the relationship between narrative developmental assumptions and the adolescents' own self descriptions. Three themes are revealed:…

This study focused on listeners' (N = 66 undergraduate and graduate music education majors) ability to identify nuances of musical expression using figurative language and specific music terminology. Data reviewed for accuracy in classifying general expressive categories showed that listeners were successful at identifying broad intended realms of…

This article explores the images and metaphors that teachers use when speaking of their relations with students and examines how these images work to call into play particular constructs of gender relations. Of specific interest is the way teachers use binaries of open/closed, in control/out of control and maturity/immaturity to make sense of…

Two questionnaire experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of 2 styles (hyperbole and orthographically deviant writing style) on the perception of hiniku, 'quasi-irony', and oseji, 'quasi-flattery', in the Japanese language. In each experiment, stories were constructed in which a speaker made a remark evaluating the addressee's…

To teach students particular ways of thinking in the humanities, three faculty in literature and creative writing discover how to conceptualize these approaches for students and model them or have students model them in the classroom, and they assess the results on student learning. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)