Validity evidence of Primary Metaphor Comprehension Tasks

a literature review

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2023.1.44362

Keywords:

Primary metaphor comprehension, Development of psycholinguistic tasks, Validity evidence, Figurative language, Conceptual Metaphor Theory.

Abstract

This study presents validity evidence for two Primary Metaphor Comprehension Tasks, one verbal and the other non-verbal. Both tasks are part of a more comprehensive figurative language comprehension task (dubbed COMFIGURA), which was elaborated under the Cognitive Linguistics framework, following notions from the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and considered guidelines from Psychometrics. By means of a literature review, we searched and identified empirical studies conducted with three versions of the tasks that were published in scientific databases. Six papers were found, analyzed, and systematized in terms of task version, results found, and observed validity evidence type. Overall,  robust validity evidence were found for both the verbal and the non-verbal primary metaphor comprehension tasks (in all versions). With this, we sought to contribute to the framework of instruments available to clinicians and researchers, as well as to advance conceptual and primary metaphor theories, by analyzing the use of these tasks in different contexts.

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Author Biographies

Maity Siqueira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Maity Siqueira is a professor at PPG Letters at UFRGS. He has a degree in Psychology, a master's degree and a doctorate in Linguistics from PUCRS. He completed his doctorate sandwich and senior internship at the University of California, Holy Cross. Works in the area of ​​Psycholinguistics, with focus on understanding figurative language. Your main research interests are understanding and the acquisition of figurative language and the development and validation of a psychometric test that assesses the ability to understand figurative language.

Caroline Girardi Ferrari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

PhD student and master in Literature – Language Studies (Psycholinguistics) in the Postgraduate Program in Literature, at UFRGS. Participate in the research group METAFOLIA – Studies in Cognitive Semantics and, currently, serves as Postgraduate Liaison on the committee executive of RaAM (The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor). Assessment research children's understanding of figurative language, teenagers and adults.

Jaqueline de Carvalho Rodrigues, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Clínica, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Master and PhD in Psychology from UFRGS. Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).

Laura Baiocco, Universidade do Arizona, Departamento de Psicologia, Tucson, AZ, Estados Unidos da América.

hD student in Psychology at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, AZ, USA. Master and Bachelor of Arts by UFRGS. Currently, research into the role of emotion in metaphor processing.

Tamara Melo de Oliveira, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina, Itajaí, SC, Brasil.

Master and PhD in Literature from UFRGS. Graduated in Literature – Portuguese and Portuguese Language Literature – from the same university. Professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Santa Catarina (IFSC). He has experience in the area of ​​Linguistics, with an emphasis on Pragmatics, Semantics and Psycholinguistics.

Sergio Duarte Jr, Psicólogo clínico e psicoterapeuta em consultório particular, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist. Master of Letters – Language Studies (Psycholinguistics) in the Program of Postgraduate Studies in Literature at UFRGS. Specialist in Clinical Psychology from the Federal Council of Psychology (CFP), Neuropsychology (CFP) and in Assessment Psychological (UFRGS). In a private practice, he works children and families in the context of neurodevelopment (typical and atypical) from a perspective socio-cognitive.

 

Daniela Marques, Fonoaudióloga em consultório particular, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Speech therapist by IMEC. He has a master's degree in Psychology and a doctorate in Linguistics, both from UFRGS. Works in the area of ​​auditory and language rehabilitation for children and adults.

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2023-12-15

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Siqueira, M., Girardi Ferrari, C., de Carvalho Rodrigues, J., Baiocco, L., Melo de Oliveira, T., Duarte Jr, S., & Marques, D. (2023). Validity evidence of Primary Metaphor Comprehension Tasks: a literature review. Letrônica, 16(1), e44362. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2023.1.44362

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2023): Single Volume

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PSICOLINGUÍSTICA E NEUROLINGUÍSTICA EM INTERFACES

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