How do we comprehend linguistic and visual narratives? A study in children with typical development

IF 1.7 2区 文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Ines Adornetti , Alessandra Chiera , Daniela Altavilla , Valentina Deriu , Camilla Maria Lecci , Andrea Marini , Giovanni Valeri , Rita Magni , Francesco Ferretti
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The present study investigated the comprehension of narrative with reference to global coherence, i.e., the global representation of story meaning and connectedness, across two different expressive modalities: stories conveyed through written language and stories conveyed through sequences of images. Two cognitive abilities possibly underpinning such comprehension were assessed: Central Coherence (CC) and Theory of Mind (ToM). Two groups of children with typical development aged between 8.00 and 10.11 years were included in the study: 40 participants received the narrative comprehension task in the linguistic modality; 40 participants were administered the narrative comprehension task in the visual condition. Analyses revealed that a change in the expressive code used to convey narratives did not entail a change in the overall comprehension performance: children of the two groups performed similarly on the narrative task. As for the cognitive abilities, CC and ToM scores were positively correlated with narrative comprehension score only in the visual narrative comprehension task, and not in the linguistic one. Moreover, a regression analysis showed that, along with age, CC significantly predicted the visual narrative comprehension score. The implications of these results are discussed.

我们如何理解语言和视觉叙事?对典型发育儿童的研究
本研究通过两种不同的表达方式:通过书面语言传达的故事和通过图像序列传达的故事,探讨了关于整体连贯性的叙事理解,即故事意义和连通性的整体表征。两种可能支撑这种理解的认知能力被评估:中央连贯(CC)和心理理论(ToM)。选取年龄在8.00 ~ 10.11岁的典型发育儿童为研究对象,其中40名接受语言情态的叙事理解任务;40名参与者在视觉条件下进行叙事理解任务。分析显示,用于传达叙事的表达代码的变化并不会导致整体理解表现的变化:两组儿童在叙事任务中的表现相似。认知能力方面,CC和ToM得分与叙事理解得分仅在视觉叙事理解任务中呈正相关,在语言叙事理解任务中无显著正相关。此外,回归分析显示,随着年龄的增长,CC显著预测视觉叙事理解得分。讨论了这些结果的含义。
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Language Sciences
Language Sciences Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Language Sciences is a forum for debate, conducted so as to be of interest to the widest possible audience, on conceptual and theoretical issues in the various branches of general linguistics. The journal is also concerned with bringing to linguists attention current thinking about language within disciplines other than linguistics itself; relevant contributions from anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists and sociologists, among others, will be warmly received. In addition, the Editor is particularly keen to encourage the submission of essays on topics in the history and philosophy of language studies, and review articles discussing the import of significant recent works on language and linguistics.
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