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A Cognitive Linguistics Study of FoodMetaphors in Iraqi Arabic | ||
| Misan Journal of Acodemic Studies | ||
| Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1-15 | ||
| Author | ||
| Safaa Issa Hassan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract: This paper is an investigation of the notion expounded in the cognitive theory of metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980, Lakoff, 1993) that abstract conceptual domains are comprehended by means of metaphorical mappings from domains grounded directly in experience , specifically whether the abstract domain of thought in Iraqi Arabic obtains its relational structure from the more concrete domain of food and cooking . "Recent studies on metaphor have proved it to be an important language device that reflects the cognitive source of human thinking" ( I – Wen Sue, 2002, 589 ). Some everyday idiomatic and proverbial metaphorical expressions in Iraqi Arabic have been analyzed following the framework of the cognitive theory of metaphor. It appears that the abstract domain of thought in Iraqi Arabic is largely shaped by metaphorical mappings taken from the more concrete and experiential domain of cooking and food. | ||
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