Eye and Heart Metaphors in Tabriz: A Cognitive Approach

Abstract

Given this claim of cognitive linguists who conceptualize meanings based on material material experiences, he attempts to explore the various ways in which speakers of the word signify both members of the eye and the heart as conceptual sources for the expression of terms. The data analyzed mainly consisted of sixteen interviews with Tibetan speakers and a questionnaire examining their knowledge of the two concepts of eye and heart; The authors, who are native to Tiberias, have examined. The results showed that the metaphors formed by two concepts of heart and eye are based on two metaphorical beliefs, namely: "vision, thinking, cognition and understanding"; "heart is a container"; Is the body ”; and“ the heart rate is the feeling ”. The assertion that can be made by considering these underlying conceptual metaphors is that "the perceptual organ represents the perception itself".

Keywords

• dialect
• conceptual metaphor
• cognitive semantics
• body metaphor