Przed lekturą. Dotyk i jego rola w komunikacji oraz w dziecięcej metaforze synestezyjnej
Before reading. Touch and its role in communication and in children’s synesthetic metaphors

Author(s): Bernadeta Niesporek-Szamburska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: senses; touch; child and sensory cognition; synesthetic metaphor;
Summary/Abstract: The author of the article, assuming that the child experiences the world through the senses, indicates the specificity of the sense of touch and its role in the communication of the child. Then, she shows that the atypicality and richness of tactile sensations is reflected in semantics and lexicon of the Polish language. Also language metaphors, especially of the synesthetic variety, reflect the sense of touch. As a proof of foregoing the author cites the conclusions from the research carried out on synesthetic metaphors drawn from the texts for children and adoelscents. The conclusions point to the essential role of the sense of touch in learning about the world, reflected in the language: it is a significant domain carrying a huge number of metaphorical extensions defining broadly understood contact in communication.

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