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Article: From the playful to the profound: what metaphors tell us about gifted children. (The Young Gifted Child).
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- Roeper Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Introduction
The everyday, colloquial use of metaphor has sometimes led to common phrases that no longer cause intrigue, such as "he's a star" and "she's a sweetie" (although such colloquial use can cause confusion across cultures). Such well known metaphorical expressions become taken-for-granted aspects of language, devoid of novelty and surprise. Winner (1997) argues that language is the graveyard of old metaphors (like these), but also the birthplace of new ones. Some metaphors seem to resist erosion by time (see for example, great poetry, Shakespearean drama, proverbs, etc.) and the birth of many new metaphors can revitalize language and human perception. ...