The Point of Words: Childrens Understanding of Metaphor and Irony

by Ellen Winner

HTH

Hardcover

First published December 12, 1988

About the author

Ellen Winner is a psychologist and a professor at Boston College. She specializes in psychology of art.

Winner graduated from the Putney School in 1965 and received a PhD in developmental psychology from Harvard University in 1978. She collaborated on Project Zero to conduct studies about the way people experience and perceive art. Winner noted how psychological explorations beginning in the realm of philosophy pertained to art.

From 1995 to 96, Winner served as president of the American Psychological Association Division 10. In 2000, Winner was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts.

Reviews

[Isao Matsumoto · Rating 4 out of 5]

A staff of my office edited this book. This is the Japanese translation book. The orginal book is the Point of words by Ellen Winner.