儿童隐喻能力研究现状与发展趋势

The Status Quo and Development Trend of Research on Children’s Metaphoric Competence

通过对近年儿童隐喻能力研究成果进行分类综述和分析,发现此领域研究内容涵盖了儿童隐喻理解能力和产出能力、特殊儿童隐喻能力和普通儿童隐喻能力等各个方面,运用了神经心理学研究法、横断式实验研究法、纵向观察研究法和定性研究法等。总的来说,国内外研究均偏重于儿童隐喻理解能力,而隐喻产出能力研究相对薄弱,尤其是学前儿童隐喻产出能力研究比较欠缺;横断式实验研究居多,历时跟踪研究较少。因此,未来儿童隐喻研究应更重视学前儿童隐喻产出能力发展和历时跟踪研究方法的应用。

Through a categorized review and analysis of the research results on children’s metaphorical competence in recent years,this paper finds that the research in this field covers various aspects of children’s metaphorical comprehension and production,the metaphoric competence of ordinary and exceptional children,and adopts many research methods such as neuropsychological,cross-sectional experimental,longitudinal observational and qualitative research methods.Generally speaking,both domestic and foreign studies tend to be more concerned about children’s metaphor comprehension ability rather than children’s metaphor production,which is more typical in the research on preschool children’s metaphor production,and most of the studies are cross-sectional experimental studies while only a few studies are longitudinal studies.Therefore,future research on this field should pay more attention to the development of preschool children’s ability to produce metaphors and the application of longitudinal study method.