Talking About the Non-Literal: Internal States and Explanations in Child-Constructed Narratives

Non-literal language most often permeates interesting and informative narratives. These are the non-perceptible, inferential aspects of a story, such as the explanation of events, the attribution of internal, particularly mental, states to the characters of the story, or the evaluation of events by...

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Main Author: Veneziano Edy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-10-01
Series:Psychology of Language and Communication
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2017-0007