Investigating spatial metaphor and image schemas in Hossein Monzaovi's sonnets

Mohammadzade, Hosna; Madani, Amir Hossein

doi:10.22099/jba.2023.45136.4322

Investigating spatial metaphor and image schemas in Hossein Monzaovi's sonnets

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ PhD student in Persian language and literature, Kashan University

² Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, kashan University

10.22099/jba.2023.45136.4322

Abstract

Cognitive semantics reaches how the mind works and human experience in understanding concepts through language by studies the meaning. The summary of this approach is that metaphor is not just a linguistic issue; the main origin of metaphor is the mind, but for its emergence, it needs appropriate linguistic, cultural, and social contexts, and the relationship between metaphor and mind, society, and culture is a two-way relationship. Metaphors help abstract areas to be understood based on objective areas. Image schemas are among the conceptual structures that have been paid attention to in this field and are made with a metaphorical foundation to be considered as a bridge for the relation between our physical experiences and more complex cognitive domains and help to understand concepts that are essentially immeasurable. The present study has aimed to analyze the spatial metaphors and volume, movement and power schemas in the sonnets of "Hossein Monzavi" using the descriptive-analytical method and referring to the theory of cognitive semanticists. The findings of the study show that Monzavi used image schemas to visualize concepts such as: love, doubt, desire, hatred, sadness, endurance, happiness, madness. His conceptual metaphors show that love, madness, drunkenness, shame and kindness have a high place in the poet's mental world and in his lived culture; Love is one of the powerful forces in his thought and dominates everything, and after love, division, fate and sadness are at a high level in terms of power.

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