The purposes of this study were to identify the metaphoric language that occurs in Mexican elementary school basal readers for the period of 1978-1984, to determine the most common trope in each grade and to determine the trope densities of each grade. There was a need to identify any changes in the number of tropes and in the trope densities that occur between grades in order to develop in the future methods and materials for teaching students to recognize and interpret figurative language. The findings indicate that there was a systematic increase in density between all grade levels except the second and the third grades. Of a total of 2814 tropes, the most common trope was Metaphor which occurred 2277 times and represented 80.9% of all tropes. It included personification which formed 56.4% of all the metaphors, and in which Nature and Animal Life represented 64.2% of the themes. The implications to educators and to bilingual programs are discussed. It is suggested that a reading program encompassing figurative language can increase the knowledge of metaphoric language and can also increase the knowledge of idiomatic speech so necessary for successful communication. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-09, Section: A, page: 2640. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75631 |
| Contributors | BILELO, MARIA ADELAIDE MARQUES., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 191 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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