Characteristics of Children Metaphor Comprehension in Primary School

In 1980s,two linguists of the United States,G.Lakoff and M.Johnson,first stated the concept of metaphor from the angle of cognitive psychological,with the idea that metaphor is a kind of mentality and a human cognitive form of the objective world.Since then it has aroused widespread concern in the psychological field.Sense perception,thinking and imagination can effectively reflect the objective world through the metaphor,the research of children's metaphor comprehension has been helpful on the development of understanding children's cognitive disciplines and promoting children's cognition,etc.Affected by the level of knowledge,experience and intellectual development,children's metaphor comprehension has its own characteristics as follows:(1) Children's metaphor comprehension is superficial,they are still confined to the surface of meaning in understanding the level of metaphor and it is difficult for them to accurately understand the metaphor meaning of the metaphor.(2) The development of children's metaphor comprehension is adapting to the level of the thinking development,so the metaphor comprehension has its phase.(3) Children's metaphor comprehension is instable.Frequently,it has a funny phenomenon like that the understanding of the same metaphor is different between an environment and the other circumstances(4) Children's metaphor comprehension is empirical.They mobilize and utilize all the knowledge and experience to determine the significance of metaphor.