| Life Conceptual Metaphor analysis in "The Blind Owl" of Sadegh Hedayat |
| Paper ID : 1048-ICIL |
| Authors |
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Malihe Anooshe * 3rd block on the left,1st alley on the left,9th. Dr Hesabi St., Modares Blvd. |
| Abstract |
| Conceptual metaphor is considered as a means of understanding and explaining language use.So the present research based on Lakoff and Johnson's theory in " conceptual metaphor", studies the ontological metaphor of life in an Iranian short novel which is called " the Blind Owl" (Boof- e- Koor) written by Sadegh Hedayat in 1930s. This paper is trying to give a brief description on cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics and analyse the "life"conceptual metaphor in "the Blind Owl" book. This paper is done on semantic mappings that has the form of " Target Domain is/ as Source Domain".It is based on a descriptive – analytic approach and attempts to categorize the frequency of various source domains that have been used for life as a target domain and discovers their importance to inspire the writer's thought. It is concluded that life is rendered in different concepts and "life as a thing" has the highest frequency among other concepts.These findings can be seen in the chart.It also shows the writer's overview towards the life. |
| Keywords |
| life, Sadegh Hedayat, conceptual metaphor,the Blind Owl, cognitive semantics |
| Status: Accepted |