The primary purpose of this study was to determine the trope density of selected seventh and eighth grade level basal readers. A secondary purpose was to determine the most common type of trope or tropes found in basals at the seventh and eighth grade levels. / The population was composed of the twelve basal reading series that extend into the seventh and the eighth grade. The sample was three seventh and three eighth grade basal series; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., Houghton Mifflin Company, Inc.; and Scott, Foresman and Company. / The investigator located tropes, determined trope density, and classified the tropes according to the Valeri (1982) classification system. / One hypothesis was tested: Is there a significant difference in trope density between the seventh and eighth grade basal readers? / Specific questions considered were: One, what is the most common type of trope found in the seventh grade basal readers? Two, what is the most common type of trope found in the eighth grade basal readers? / The conclusions drawn from this study were: One, there is no significant differences in trope density in the selected basal readers from seventh through eighth grade. Second, in the basal readers there is a paucity of such common tropes as metonomy, litote, and synecdoche that make up so much of "out-of-school language." Third, even though the readability of the basal readers is fairly well controlled, publishers may be obtaining this control, in part, at the expense of figurative language. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-02, Section: A, page: 0410. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74732 |
| Contributors | DISABATO, SHARYN NICOLET., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 126 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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