Children’s Metaphors – an Inspiration to Change the Thinking of Cognitive Development and Logopedic Therapy

The article presents selected results of the author’s studies on the metaphorical description of emotions by six-year-old children. The studies show that the presentation of meaning through metaphors makes it easy for children to explain difficult concepts. Children’s metaphors allow us to illustrate the different nature of thinking in children, and, as a result, their highly original definitions. The article is an attempt to show a new perspective in logopedic therapy based on cognitive abilities, children’s imagination and their metaphorical skills. The presented suggestion addressed to therapy from the pragmatic angle only outlines the problem.

*The title of the article is a paraphrase of one chapter in the book by M. Wiśniewska-Kin (2009) on the metaphorical abilities of school students.