Document Type : Research original ,Regular Article
Abstract
Environmental crises are the outcome of this thought that human being is the center of creation and the entire world is for them and for their needs. Versus this view, there is biocentric view which believes the nature is centre in the world. These two views indicate that human being effects on environment and also is influenced from it. These effects appear on mind and thought and finally represent in language of us. The aim of this paper is investigating of the effect of environment on thought which represent in metaphoric expressions.. In this paper, on the basis of Shiri(1387) classification, two climates of Iran(North and Khorasan)(Alavi and Dolatabadi) is selected. The results show that biocentric view is represented in regional novel. The writers of this kind of novel conscious or unconscious centered the nature and used the metaphor of "Mother of the Nature" in different forms in their novels.