Studying the conceptual metaphor used in two types of Persian prose in the books Dar al-Majanin and Kimya Saadat and looking at the source area of bot

Ameri, Hayaat; Asgari, Kuorosh; Iraji, Maryam; Majidi, Setare

doi:10.30465/lir.2025.49600.1900

Studying the conceptual metaphor used in two types of Persian prose in the books Dar al-Majanin and Kimya Saadat and looking at the source area of bot

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Hayaat Ameri ¹

Kuorosh Asgari ²

Maryam Iraji ³

Setare Majidi ⁴

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, Tarbiat Modares University

² Ph.D of Linguistics, Azad Islamic University

³ Assistant Professor of Linguistics, , Islamic Azad University, Tehran Center Branch,Tehran, Iran

⁴ Assistant Professor of Linguistics, , Islamic Azad University, Tehran Center

10.30465/lir.2025.49600.1900

Abstract

In this article, we are going to examine the conceptual metaphor used in two types of Persian prose in the books of Dar al-Majanin and Kimya Saadat, and at the same time, we will have a look at the field of origin from both books and pay attention to the difference between the fields used in them. The aim of this research is to achieve a uniform pattern in the division of metaphors used in past and present texts.For this purpose, after studying the research background and theoretical studies of conceptual metaphor, ten percent of each first, middle and last part of each book was analyzed and the areas of origin and destination and mapping of conceptual metaphors were noted and placed in an Excel chart and by Excel The statistics of conceptual metaphors were calculated and displayed in a bar graph for easier viewing (it will be shown in the conclusion section), which from a total of 111 metaphors investigated in the Kimya Saadat and 81 metaphors in the book Dar al-Majanin, the statistics obtained are as follows. be:
Kimya Saadat: Structural metaphor 42 - Hetocognitive metaphor 11 - Directional metaphor 1
Book of Dar al-Majanin: Structural metaphor 42 - Ontological metaphor 25 - Directional metaphor 2
The most frequently used metaphor frequency in both books was related to ontological metaphors, which were about 5242 and 2141 percent, respectively, and the lowest frequency was directional metaphors, which were 841 percent and 241 percent, respectively.

Keywords

conceptual metaphor

cognitive linguistics

cognitive semantics

ontological metaphor

structural metaphor

directional metaphor

Subjects

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