The Ground and the Sky on the Axis of Metaphor (The metaphorical process of sense-giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors)

Metaphorical mechanism of mind in sense-giving to the world is the pivot point of this research. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor which maintains the role of metaphor in sense-giving to the world, is one of the biggest achievements of Cognitive Linguistics. Amongst different kinds of Conceptual M...

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Main Authors: ُShayesteh Sadat Mousavi, Mahmoud Rahimi
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Published: Semnan University 2020-10-01
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description Metaphorical mechanism of mind in sense-giving to the world is the pivot point of this research. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor which maintains the role of metaphor in sense-giving to the world, is one of the biggest achievements of Cognitive Linguistics. Amongst different kinds of Conceptual Metaphors classified by this theory, Orientational Metaphors involve ways of sense-producing for the world's phenomena via the orientations. As we showed in this research, it might be intangible for a lot of speakers of a certain language how the natural phenomena get connected to spiritual concepts and characteristics – due to their orientational situation-, while there is no essential or natural relation between these concepts and those natural phenomena. By presenting some evidence of the main Persian literary texts, we have shown how the human kind borrows concepts from the theological, spiritual, emotional, physical, and sexual domains and projects them to the domain of natural phenomena. We are also trying to clarify that this projection is funded on the Orienational basis. These evidence declare the process of sense-production for the world through metaphors, and point to the undeniable role of literary texts in stabilization and internalization of conceptual metaphors and handing them over to the next generations.
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spelling doaj-art-6f69949d642346fa897b58a6136ee46a2025-01-15T08:10:13ZfasSemnan Universityمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی2008-95702717-090X2020-10-01112247149610.22075/jlrs.2020.20207.17064501The Ground and the Sky on the Axis of Metaphor (The metaphorical process of sense-giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors)ُShayesteh Sadat Mousavi0Mahmoud Rahimi1Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran (correspondence author)Dhd at persain literature and languageMetaphorical mechanism of mind in sense-giving to the world is the pivot point of this research. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor which maintains the role of metaphor in sense-giving to the world, is one of the biggest achievements of Cognitive Linguistics. Amongst different kinds of Conceptual Metaphors classified by this theory, Orientational Metaphors involve ways of sense-producing for the world's phenomena via the orientations. As we showed in this research, it might be intangible for a lot of speakers of a certain language how the natural phenomena get connected to spiritual concepts and characteristics – due to their orientational situation-, while there is no essential or natural relation between these concepts and those natural phenomena. By presenting some evidence of the main Persian literary texts, we have shown how the human kind borrows concepts from the theological, spiritual, emotional, physical, and sexual domains and projects them to the domain of natural phenomena. We are also trying to clarify that this projection is funded on the Orienational basis. These evidence declare the process of sense-production for the world through metaphors, and point to the undeniable role of literary texts in stabilization and internalization of conceptual metaphors and handing them over to the next generations.https://rhetorical.semnan.ac.ir/article_4501_d3da10b956e0ac7779182d1d54aa251a.pdforientational metaphorsembodimentcognitiongroundsky
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The Ground and the Sky on the Axis of Metaphor (The metaphorical process of sense-giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors)
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی
orientational metaphors
embodiment
cognition
ground
sky
title The Ground and the Sky on the Axis of Metaphor (The metaphorical process of sense-giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors)
title_full The Ground and the Sky on the Axis of Metaphor (The metaphorical process of sense-giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors)
title_fullStr The Ground and the Sky on the Axis of Metaphor (The metaphorical process of sense-giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors)
title_full_unstemmed The Ground and the Sky on the Axis of Metaphor (The metaphorical process of sense-giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors)
title_short The Ground and the Sky on the Axis of Metaphor (The metaphorical process of sense-giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors)
title_sort ground and the sky on the axis of metaphor the metaphorical process of sense giving to the natural phenomena funded on the orientational metaphors
topic orientational metaphors
embodiment
cognition
ground
sky
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