Document Type : Research Paper
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Professor of Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
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PhD Candidate in Cognitive Science-Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
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PhD Candidate of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran.
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. M.A. in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran.
10.22111/jsr.2024.48882.2442
Abstract
Metaphor has been studied from different literary, linguistic, aesthetic and psychological perspectives, being the subject of various types of research over the centuries. As to cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor theory is one of theories with a new look at metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson in the form of orientational, ontological, and structural metaphors. This research aims to describe and analyze how types of orientational conceptual metaphors are represented in Saeb Tabrizi's sonnets (volume (1)) adopting Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive analysis. This research is of descriptive-analytic type. Research results show, in his sonnets, the poet has used abstract concepts related to human feelings and beliefs, the ups and downs of time and life, mystical themes, human progress and regression, and all of the individual's daily experiences as target domains. Accordingly, in order to objectify and materialize such concepts, he has employed various orientations, such as down, up, rotation, far, near, outside, inside, middle, corners and sides, facing, surrounding, and back, as source domains. The results also display that most of the orientations can be observed in his sonnets with different frequencies and there is a significant difference between the frequency of using types of orientational metaphors in these sonnets.
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