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Conceptual metaphors in Persian: A cognitive perspective and a corpus driven Analysis

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    • azita afrashi
    • seyed mostafa asi
    • kamyar joulaei
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Abstract

The present thesis studies conceptual metaphors in a representative corpus of Persian texts. Exploiting the Persian Linguistic Database (PLDB), we sampled a corpus of contemporary written texts, based on their similarity to the colloquial language of the Persian speakers, and then tried to identify and extract the relevant conceptual metaphors. The sample corpus contains of 10 texts of contemporary Iranian writers, naming Hedayat, Jamalzadeh, Daneshvar, Aale -Ahmad….et al. Analyzing the corpus, the writer managed to extract nearly 2000 conceptual metaphors in the form of 600 name of the mappings. Then the conceptual metaphors classified according to the Lakoff and Johnson classification (1980) as ontological, structural and orientational, and a class of conceptual metaphors that Lakoff and turner (1989) presented as image metaphors.
As the next step we tried to determine the proportion of these classes comparing with each other. We concluded that the Persian speakers make use of ontological metaphors in their daily language, more than the other classes. Then we tried to determine which conceptual mappings and source domains are the most common ones in each class.
 Due to the corpus driven approach in the analysis of metaphors, considerable results obtained. For example it was observed that the abstract concepts as life, emotions or time are understood via some concrete domains as, objects, containers and personification. In addition, ideas about adopting a corpus driven approach in analyzing the conceptual metaphors, and extending the sampled corpus findings to large corpora were discussed.

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  • conceptual metaphor
  • corpus linguistics
  • cognitive semantics
  • corpus driven analasys
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Language Studies
Volume 6, Issue 12 - Serial Number 2
March 2016
Pages 39-61
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  • Receive Date: 01 October 2015
  • Revise Date: 03 November 2015
  • Accept Date: 15 November 2015
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afrashi, A. , asi, S. M. and joulaei, K. (2016). Conceptual metaphors in Persian: A cognitive perspective and a corpus driven Analysis. Language Studies, 6(12), 39-61.

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afrashi, A. , , asi, S. M. , and joulaei, K. . "Conceptual metaphors in Persian: A cognitive perspective and a corpus driven Analysis", Language Studies, 6, 12, 2016, 39-61.

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afrashi, A., asi, S. M., joulaei, K. (2016). 'Conceptual metaphors in Persian: A cognitive perspective and a corpus driven Analysis', Language Studies, 6(12), pp. 39-61.

CHICAGO

A. afrashi , S. M. asi and K. joulaei, "Conceptual metaphors in Persian: A cognitive perspective and a corpus driven Analysis," Language Studies, 6 12 (2016): 39-61,

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afrashi, A., asi, S. M., joulaei, K. Conceptual metaphors in Persian: A cognitive perspective and a corpus driven Analysis. Language Studies, 2016; 6(12): 39-61.

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