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Sapogova Ye. Ye.
Down the rabbit-hole: Metaphor and nonsense in child's imagination
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This article explores the question of the instrumentality of children's comprehension and interpretation of metaphor and nonsense for the development of imagination and creativity. It provides a theoretical foundation and experimental data relevant to the investigation of the inner mechanisms of imagination. The author argues that imagination is an aspect of sign-symbol activity and one of the conditions for creativity development. From this point of view, metaphorisation and nonsense interpretation are sense-oriented substitutions. Original experimental data (measurement of unknown object's attributes by known characteristics, metaphor's «animation» and independent structuring, attribution and interpretation of nonsense, etc. ) demonstrate that stimulation of the construction of new contexts (frames) helps to build new ontogeny fragments and create new senses.

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