Linguistics and Literature Studies Vol. 3(4), pp. 121 - 130
DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030401
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A Comparison of the Metaphorical Usage of the Word "Wisdom" in the Poems of Two Khorasanian Rational Poets Using Cognitive Linguistics

Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol ^1,*, Andisheh Ghadirian ^2
1 Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
² Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

ABSTRACT

Cognitive semantics has paid a great deal of attention to the study of metaphor. In fact, metaphor is seen as a suitable tool for recognizing the manner of thinking and linguistic behaviors. In this approach, metaphor is one of the important tools for transmitting experience and mental concepts. In other words, in cognitive linguistics, a new meaning is bestowed upon metaphor. Therefore, metaphor refers to any understanding or expressing abstract concepts in terms of the concrete domains. The present article compared the metaphors related to the word "wisdom" in the poems of the two Khorasanian rational poets, Ferdowsi and Naser Khosrou. The aim of this article was to contemplate the place and value of wisdom in the works of these two rational poets. In order to do so, the lexical item "wisdom" was identified and extracted from the poems and then categorized based on the similarity of usage found in the poems.

KEYWORDS
Metaphor, Cognitive Semantics, Metaphorical Domains, Persian Literature, Naser Khosrou, Ferdowsi

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[1] Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol , Andisheh Ghadirian , "A Comparison of the Metaphorical Usage of the Word "Wisdom" in the Poems of Two Khorasanian Rational Poets Using Cognitive Linguistics," Linguistics and Literature Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 121 - 130, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030401.

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Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol , Andisheh Ghadirian (2015). A Comparison of the Metaphorical Usage of the Word "Wisdom" in the Poems of Two Khorasanian Rational Poets Using Cognitive Linguistics. Linguistics and Literature Studies, 3(4), 121 - 130. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030401.