Document Type : applied research
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1 Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran
2 Lecturer at Mohaghegh Ardabili University
Abstract
Conceptual metaphor is a new term coined by cognitive linguists in the last century and is in fact the name given to the mind's efforts to understand and convey abstract concepts. In this attitude, metaphor goes beyond the framework of rhetorical sciences and is no longer a means of decorating the word but a basis for thought and a tool for understanding immaterial things. The pioneers of this theory were Lycaf and Johnson, who divided conceptual metaphor into three types: ontological, cognitive, and directional. Each of these metaphors consists of two aspects called the domains of origin and destination. In this research, which has been done in a library and analytical-descriptive manner, we have tried to examine the conceptual metaphors used in the poems of Ebrahimi and Rahmandoust in terms of the destination domain to see what are the main destination domains of their poems; That is, what concepts did these two poets use conceptual metaphors to objectify? For this purpose, 21 books were selected from the books of these two poets and after examining 122 items, conceptual metaphors were found and it was found that the poets used these metaphors to describe concepts such as: time, emotions, interest, religion and human relations. This is a major part of the destination domain belonging to the objectification of emotions.
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