Conceptual Metaphors of FEAR in Persian and English: A Cognitive and Corpus-based Approach
Journal: Language Art (Vol.3, No. 2)Publication Date: 2018.05.28
Authors : Azita Afrashi Bita Ghouchani;
Page : 45-60
Keywords : Cognitive Semantics; Conceptual Metaphor; Emotions; Corpus Method; Fear.;
Abstract
This paper attempts to investigate and compare the conceptual metaphors of FEAR in Persian and English. FEAR is one of the basic emotions, conceptualization of which shows both similarities and variations in different languages. Investigating features of conceptualization is an essential part of the semantics of emotions. The cross-linguistic analysis of the concept of FEAR is based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory put forward by Lakoff (1987) and the extensions of this theory provided by Kövecses (2002). We have attempted to compare and contrast FEAR metaphors and elaborate on some cultural and language-specific aspects in the two languages. We adopted a corpus-based method to gather the metaphorical expressions and then to extract the name of the mappings. We compared and contrasted these name of the mappings, and identified the commonalities and differences. Certain source domain concepts such as human, motion verbs, animals, and colors were explained in detail.
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