A Comparative Study of Time Metaphor in Mahmoud Dolatabadi and Yusuf Idris’ Novels

Document Type : Research

Authors

1 PhD in Arabic language and literature, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Iran, Tehran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Iran, Tehran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Iran, Tehran.

Abstract

Contemporary linguistics always seeks to present new theories to regulate studies systematically and objectively. After the emergence of cognitive semantics, many researchers and linguists started to write about it. One of the theories of cognitive semantics in literary studies is George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's conceptual metaphors theory. Metaphors, we live by described conceptual theory of metaphor or conceptual metaphor in detail in their first joint book.
Regarding their theory, Lakoff and Johnson believe that one conceptual domain is understood based on another conceptual domain in conceptual metaphor. Since metaphor creates an implicit similarity between two domains or two conceptual domains, the term mapping can illustrate the connection between the two dominions. This term matches the characteristics of two cognitive domains close to each other in the form of metaphors. Conceptual metaphor is, in fact, the process of understanding and experiencing dominion (a), which takes place with the help of phenomena and terms related to dominion (b).

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