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    non sort: The
    title: development of the use and comprehension of metaphor by pre-school children
  name:
    name part: Harris, Patricia Green
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Archer, Stanley L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Barzak, R. W.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Burch, Robert W.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Harry, Kroitor P.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Stewart, David H.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1982
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 300 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the child's use of metaphor, a topic not yet been pursued by linguists concerned with the acquisition of language. The first section of this study is a historical sketch of metaphor from Aristotle to modern theorists. The next two chapters discuss the inherent importance of metaphor in artistic and in non-artistic thought. The fifth chapter presents studies of the child's comprehension of metaphor, while the sixth chapter presents data collected from children and from printed sources demonstrating the child's use of metaphor. The seventh chapter analyzes the data presented in the sixth chapter, and the eighth chapter presents the implications of the study, particularly in the education of young children. The argument of this dissertation is that young children who are capable of symbolic manipulation are also capable of metaphoric production and metaphoric comprehension if the metaphor relates to the realm of the child's experience. The findings of the research reveals that spontaneous metaphor, those noting similarity between disparate objects, emerge first in the child, followed by the emergence of simile. After the simile emerges, the more deliberate, proportional metaphor emerges. The methodology is standard in the field of psycholinguistics and child acquisition of language. There is a theoretical basis presented, Chapters III, IV, and V, in which the topic is surveyed in the existing scholarship and the pertinent topics, namely intentionality and comprehension, are discussed. Next, a report of the collected data, in this case drawn primarily from two subjects in detail, plus a control group of fourteen subjects as well as printed data from already published sources is presented, the models being E. V. Clark, Ann Peters, and Roger Brown, who have all published discussions of child language based on no more than three subjects. The analysis of the data argues for the existence and describes the emergence of the metapho…
  note: "Major subject: English."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1982
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 283-299).
  subject:
    topic: Children
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Metaphor
  subject:
    topic: English
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 821113
    record change date: 20220104090601.0
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng