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The Ontogenesis of Metaphor: Riddle Games among Quechua Speakers Seen as Cognitive Discovery Procedures

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dc.contributor.authorIsbell, Billie Jean
dc.contributor.authorRoncalla, Fredy Amilcar
dc.date.accessioned2005-10-24T19:58:53Z
dc.date.available2005-10-24T19:58:53Z
dc.date.issued1977
dc.descriptionThe research for this paper was conducted in the Department of Ayacucho during 1975 and 1976 under the sponsorship of The National Institute of Mental Health grant number MH26118-02 and a grant from the Social Science Research Council. Billie Jean Isbell is responsible for the theoretical formulations in the paper, which she wrote in English. Fredy Amilcar Roncalla Fernandez, the coauthor, collected nearly all of the data. He is a native speaker of Quechua and without his native intuitions and careful translations, this paper would not have been written.en_US
dc.description.abstractMetaphor, it is argued, plays an important function in cognitive and semantic development of Quechua-speaking children who engage in riddle games. It appears that riddling among the Quechua functions as a discovery procedure as children expand their cognitive operative structures and semantic domains.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe National Institute of Mental Health grant number MH26118-02; Social Science Research Councilen_US
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dc.identifier.citationIsbell, Billie Jean, and Fredy Amilcar Roncalla Fernandez. The Ontogenesis of Metaphor: Riddle Games among Quechua Speakers Seen as Cognitive Discovery Procedures. Journal of Latin American Lore 3:1 (1977): 19-49.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0360-1927
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/2271
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUCLA Latin American Center.en_US
dc.subjectQuecha Languageen_US
dc.subjectPeruen_US
dc.subjectMetaphoren_US
dc.subjectRiddlesen_US
dc.subjectAyacuchoen_US
dc.subjectAndean Cultureen_US
dc.titleThe Ontogenesis of Metaphor: Riddle Games among Quechua Speakers Seen as Cognitive Discovery Proceduresen_US
dc.typearticleen_US

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