Document Type : Original Article
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1 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 Persian literature group. Payame Noor University Graduate Center of Tehran
Abstract
While challenging this view, Lakoff declared that the nature of human thinking is metaphorical and the human mind uses tangible things to understand abstract concepts. One of the areas where the mind and language take help from metaphorical images is the issues related to healing. Persons, use metaphorical language due to explain experiences related to illness. An issue that provides the possibility to modify the way the patient face the disease by manipulating the metaphorical system. in this research, an attempt has been made to analyze the book "From Qaitariya to Orange County"in an analytical-descriptive way, focusing on images related to the field of illness and healing. To conduct the research, all the images related to the subject, and among these, 101 samples that included images containing the narrator's evaluations about the disease were analyzed. The results show that metaphors related to disease, such as enemy, monster, sports competition, ruthless commander, prison, melting element, mob, companion, submerging element, crushing element, abyss and storm, respectively, are the most frequent in the text. The images in all of which show the narrator's negative view of the disease. issue that has caused more and more mental and physical erosion of the patient.
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