A comparative study of the conceptual metaphors of time in Persian and English

Journal of Applied Studies in Language

Amir Ghorbanpour¹  Arsalan Golfam¹  Nader Mahdipour¹ 

[1] Tarbiat Modares University, Iran;

关键词: conceptual metaphors;    metaphors of time;    comparative study;    Persian;    English;   

DOI  :  10.31940/jasl.v3i1.1342

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

From a cognitive perspective, metaphor is viewed as one of the important aspects and a fundamental part of the everyday use of language. Metaphor is generally defined as a means to talk about a more abstract conceptual domain in terms of another, more concrete domain. The mapping between the two domains is expressed through some conceptual metaphors. The present study is a comparative analysis of the conceptual metaphors of time in Persian and English. In doing so, different expressions of time in the two languages were categorized into the relevant conceptual metaphors, to be compared to find any similarities and differences in this respect. The expressions of the time were analyzed under eight different conceptual metaphors. It is revealed that the two languages show a very similar conceptualization of time-related expressions. Except for a few minor differences, both languages generally appear to use the same metaphoric structures to express time. The use of similar collocations with time words in most cases counts as evidence for the similarities between the two languages in their conceptualization of time.

【 授权许可】

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