ABSTRACT This article presents a developmental ecological approach to the emergence and development of metaphor in children, based on the ecological psychology tradition following the work of J.J. Gibson, and its extension into developmental research and theory, as developed by E.J. Gibson and others. This framework suggests that a basic compatibility and meaningfulness exists between the knower and the known, based on the direct perception of affordances. To build an ecological understanding of metaphor we need to clarify how this metaphysical ground plays out in acts of knowing that involve metaphor. In this endeavor, it is important to understand the ontogenesis of novel insightful metaphors and the role of perception. Developmental ecological psychology has repeatedly shown that infants can perceive meta-modal invariants that specify persistence of qualities. Early metaphors are consequences of the process in which invariants over naturally occurring kinds are perceived. Thus, novel metaphor production is an act of situated and experience-dependent perceiving and acting in the ecological world of socially shared meanings. Examples from previous experimental and qualitative research are reviewed to substantiate theoretical claims.

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感知隐喻：一种来自发展生态心理学的方法

摘要 本文基于遵循 JJ Gibson 工作的生态心理学传统及其对 EJ Gibson 等人发展的发展研究和理论的扩展，提出了一种儿童隐喻出现和发展的发展生态学方法。该框架表明，基于对可供性的直接感知，知道者和已知者之间存在基本的兼容性和意义。为了建立对隐喻的生态理解，我们需要阐明这种形而上学的基础如何在涉及隐喻的认知行为中发挥作用。在这项工作中，重要的是要了解新颖有见地的隐喻的本体发生和感知的作用。发展生态心理学一再表明，婴儿可以感知指定品质持久性的元模态不变量。早期的隐喻是感知自然发生类型的不变量的过程的结果。因此，新的隐喻生产是一种在社会共享意义的生态世界中进行情境化和依赖于经验的感知和行动的行为。回顾以前的实验和定性研究的例子，以证实理论主张。