Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism

Are conceptual metaphors in poetry, the same metaphors we live by? This article wants to answer this question. In order to find an answer, the relation between conceptual metaphor and general culture is explained, and the position of conceptual metaphors in the ordinary cognitive system of society i...

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Main Authors: Seyyed AmirHossein Mortezaei, Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani
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description Are conceptual metaphors in poetry, the same metaphors we live by? This article wants to answer this question. In order to find an answer, the relation between conceptual metaphor and general culture is explained, and the position of conceptual metaphors in the ordinary cognitive system of society is defined. We introduce repetitive structures which determine application forms of different general conceptual metaphors (cultural). After this introduction, we focus on metaphors in literature. We realized that poets and other people in society have the same cognitive sources. Poet's cognitive system like others is a consequence of society and culture but cultural metaphors appeared differently in his or her poems. Before explaining the quality of its emergence, we describe two main kinds of metaphors (conceptual/image or non-conceptual metaphors) and show their differences. Basically, image metaphors have objective and concrete vehicles and tenors. On the other hand, the tenors of conceptual metaphors are subjective and abstract. In the next part, we draw the borderline of cultural metaphor and poet's innovative metaphor, and passing this line, we introduce methods that make metaphors poetic. There are four main methods that can be used separately or compound: Substitution, organic collectivization, expound, and critical attitude. In the end, we try to understand individuality in art by the form of metaphor application. The relation between the rate of individuality and using conceptual metaphors is based on how different and novel can a metaphor been used in a poem compared with its ordinary usage. Results showed that direct automatic expression and creation respectively could show the maximum and minimum of individuality in art. We choose famous classics poems besides modern contemporary poems to show that the poetical expression of metaphors does not belong to a certain group of poets or a special period of time.
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spelling doaj-art-c92b85c41cc94a5e8772ebb575b19af42025-01-15T08:09:54ZfasSemnan Universityمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی2008-95702717-090X2021-06-01122417520410.22075/jlrs.2020.18421.15475302Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary IndividualismSeyyed AmirHossein Mortezaei0Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani1Department of Persian language and literature, Faculty of letters and humanity, Ferdowsi university, Mashhad, IranProfessor of Persian language and literature in Ferdowsi university of MashhadAre conceptual metaphors in poetry, the same metaphors we live by? This article wants to answer this question. In order to find an answer, the relation between conceptual metaphor and general culture is explained, and the position of conceptual metaphors in the ordinary cognitive system of society is defined. We introduce repetitive structures which determine application forms of different general conceptual metaphors (cultural). After this introduction, we focus on metaphors in literature. We realized that poets and other people in society have the same cognitive sources. Poet's cognitive system like others is a consequence of society and culture but cultural metaphors appeared differently in his or her poems. Before explaining the quality of its emergence, we describe two main kinds of metaphors (conceptual/image or non-conceptual metaphors) and show their differences. Basically, image metaphors have objective and concrete vehicles and tenors. On the other hand, the tenors of conceptual metaphors are subjective and abstract. In the next part, we draw the borderline of cultural metaphor and poet's innovative metaphor, and passing this line, we introduce methods that make metaphors poetic. There are four main methods that can be used separately or compound: Substitution, organic collectivization, expound, and critical attitude. In the end, we try to understand individuality in art by the form of metaphor application. The relation between the rate of individuality and using conceptual metaphors is based on how different and novel can a metaphor been used in a poem compared with its ordinary usage. Results showed that direct automatic expression and creation respectively could show the maximum and minimum of individuality in art. We choose famous classics poems besides modern contemporary poems to show that the poetical expression of metaphors does not belong to a certain group of poets or a special period of time.https://rhetorical.semnan.ac.ir/article_5302_f0a41df3866c51fd67bc738932ac93c6.pdfcognitive systemcultural metaphorartistic methodpoetical metaphorindividuality in art
spellingShingle Seyyed AmirHossein Mortezaei
Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani
Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی
cognitive system
cultural metaphor
artistic method
poetical metaphor
individuality in art
title Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism
title_full Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism
title_fullStr Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism
title_full_unstemmed Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism
title_short Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism
title_sort conceptual metaphor and creative literary individualism
topic cognitive system
cultural metaphor
artistic method
poetical metaphor
individuality in art
url https://rhetorical.semnan.ac.ir/article_5302_f0a41df3866c51fd67bc738932ac93c6.pdf
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