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Afrashi A, Hesami T, Salas B. A Comparative Survey of Orientational Conceptual Metaphors in Spanish and Persian. LRR 2012; 3 (4) :1-23
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1- Assistant Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
2- M.A. in Linguistics, Staff Member of the Department of Spanish Language, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3- Assistant Professor of Teaching Spanish Language, Department of Spanish Language , Islamic Azad University ,North Tehran. Iran
2- M.A. in Linguistics, Staff Member of the Department of Spanish Language, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3- Assistant Professor of Teaching Spanish Language, Department of Spanish Language , Islamic Azad University ,North Tehran. Iran
Abstract: (12823 Views)
The present paper aimed to comparatively study the orientational conceptual metaphors in Persian and Spanish. In this work, within the Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) classification of conceptual metaphors as structural, orientational and ontological metaphors, we have tried to the concentrate on the examination of orientational metahors applied to data collected from Spanish, and to prove the use of these metaphors at the level of metaphorical mapping as well as linguistic representation in Persian. The analysis of 38 samples of orientational conceptual metaphors in the form of 10 names of mapping extracted from the Spanish novel Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, a collection of papers in Spanish about conceptual metaphors, and a series of oral data, made us conclude that the similarities related to conceptual metaphors based on the human understanding of the sense of “space” and “direction” are more than the disparities in these two languages.
Article Type: Research Paper |
Subject:
Linguistics|Comparative linguistics|Sense
Published: 2012/02/20
Published: 2012/02/20
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