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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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