Metaphorical conceptualization of fear in English and Kurdish
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https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.27.6.28Keywords:
Conceptual metaphor, Fear , mapping, cultural differences, conceptualizationAbstract
This paper examines the metaphorical ways through which English and Kurdish people communicate their fears. Conceptual Metaphor Theory, one of the fundamental concepts in Cognitive Linguistics, serves as the theoretical basis for the investigation. The study seeks to identify and describe the source domains whose components are mapped onto the domain of fear. It also aims to illustrate how cross-linguistic variations manifest themselves in some mappings between English and Kurdish. For the purpose of the study, expressions in the two languages were compiled from various sources including dictionaries and literary texts. Despite the fact that the two cultures are highly different and there is a cultural division between them, yet a kind of commonalities between them can be noticed in terms of portraying emotional experiences. The study demonstrates that a number of elementary metaphors for conceiving fear are shared by the two languages.
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