Literature on children's understanding of non-literal meaning

[Dorit Ravid]

Dear Kristin,
Here is a new paper on children's comprehension of figurative language:
Berman, R.A. & D. Ravid. In press. Interpretation and recall of proverbs in
three pre-adolescent populations. *First Language*.
You can get it from Ruth Berman (rberman at post.tau.ac.il) or from me.
Best
Dorit Ravid

Professor Dorit Ravid
School of Education and the Department of Communications Disorders
Tel Aviv University
also drtravid at gmail.com

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Subject: Literature on children's understanding of non-literal meaning

Dear All,

I was wondering whether you could help me find literature (preferably
articles) on children's understanding of non-literal meaning such as
metaphor, idioms, metonymy and also irony, indirect speech acts or
sarcasm, etc.

I know of a lot of empirical studies that investigate whether there
are differences in understanding of so-called `literal meaning' vs.
`non-literal meaning'. However, all of those (that I know) have adult
subjects. I also know that there IS literature on children's
understanding non-literal meaning/language (I'm interested especially
in theories on how and when it is acquired, possibly with differences
for different types of non-literal meaning). However, it would
probably take me quite some time finding that as I don't know where to
look for it and would have to start by feeding google with rather
unspecific search items ;)

So, I hope you can help me cutting this 'rummaging' short.

Thanks.
Kristin

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