PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES IN UNDERSTANDING OF INDIRECT MEANING OF PROVERBS BY CHILDREN OF PRE-SCHOOL AGE

Authors

  • Larysa Kalmykova Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University
  • Nataliia Kharchenko Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University
  • Іnna Мysаn Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2019vol2.3972

Keywords:

indirect meaning of words, sence, proverbs, perception, understanding, children of pre-school age

Abstract

The study reveales psycholinguistic peculiarities of understanding of indirect meaning of the proverbs of Ukrainian speaking pre-school children. The experiment took place on the basis of pre-school education establishments of Ukraine. Children were proposed to express themselves in order to find out how they understand given proverbs. If they had difficulties in meaning explication, so they were proposed some variants of proverbs interpretations, among which the first was correct (with indirect meaning) and the second with the direct meaning and the third with occasional associative meaning. The experiment proved such results: there are children with obvious intuitive language ability to feel the general meaning of proverbs. The proverb understanding is seen by child as complex cognitive task, which foresees decipherment of the common thought or conclusion, understanding its meaning (implication). That is why the proverbs cause problems among children.

 

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Author Biographies

  • Larysa Kalmykova, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University
    Dr. in Psychology, Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of Preschool Education, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
  • Nataliia Kharchenko, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University
    Ph.D. in Pedagogy, Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory “Psycholinguistics of Development”, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
  • Іnna Мysаn, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University
    Ph.D. in Pedagogy, Assistant Professor, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University, Ukraine

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2019-05-21

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Kalmykova, L., Kharchenko, N., & Мysаn І. (2019). PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES IN UNDERSTANDING OF INDIRECT MEANING OF PROVERBS BY CHILDREN OF PRE-SCHOOL AGE. SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference, 2, 517-530. https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2019vol2.3972