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1- Postgraduate in Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba`i University, Iran
2- Associate Professor of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba`i University, Iran ,behzadrahbar@atu.ac.ir
2- Associate Professor of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba`i University, Iran ,
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metaphors.Conceptual metaphor is a new field of study in cognitive Linguistics, which has inspired many researchers from all over the world since its introduction by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980). Conceptual metaphors control various aspects of human life and affect their cultures and actions. Colloquial terms, are widely used and a rich part of the folklore and very rich source of conceptual metaphors. The present study aims at studying conceptual metaphors of women hidden in Persian colloquial terms. In this respect, five Persian colloquial dictionaries were used to gather the terms associated with women. The present study was a qualitative and a purposive sampling type and the required data was gathered by library indexing alongside with carefully scanning the entries one by one and gathering the colloquial terms as well as their meanings and the information regarding eacgh entry. They were alphabetically listed. Having excluded the unrelated or repeated items with the same meaning, 910 terms were finally selected. To determine the conceptual metaphor types, Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Lakoff and Turner (1989) and Kövecses (2010) categories were applied. , Overall, 24 basic (Mega) metaphors were identified as well as source domains such as supernatural beings, fire, nature, ethnicity, plants and food. Based on the cognitive role of these metaphors, four types of ontological, structural, directional and image were observed. In addition, there were cases in which two conceptual metaphors were assigned at the same time and overlapped, which are: image-ontological metaphor, structural-ontological metaphor and directional-ontological metaphor.
Keywords: : conceptual metaphor, colloquial terms, women, source domain, target domain, mapping, folklore
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