Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 17، number In Volume 3، June 2024 ، issue Number 97

The analysis and interpretation of conceptual metaphor of noor in the first book of Masnavi -ye – Ma'navi based on George Lakoff and Mark Johnson theory.

Mohammadzaman Lalehzari , Shabnam Hatampour (Author in Charge), Farzaneh Sorkhi

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Likoff and Johnson"s research in the field of metaphor proved that the uses of metaphor are not limited to the field of literary studies. They believe that metaphor is rooted in thinking and one of its manifestations is language. Therefore, conceptual metaphor is a term in linguistics that refers to understanding an idea or a conceptual field based on another idea or conceptual field. . Based on this theory of contemporary metaphor, the functions of the metaphor of noor and image clusters related to it, i.e. vision and hearing, knowledge, noor, God, etc., were expressed and discussed in Masnavi. The purpose of this research was to find out how the conceptual metaphor of noor in the Masnavi can have a purposeful semantic correspondence with the contemporary theory of linguistics.

METHODOLOGY: Therefore, in this research, the conceptual metaphor of noor based on the theory of Likoff and Johnson in the first book of the Masnavi has been investigated with a descriptive analytical method.

FINDINGS: Rumi has used the conceptual metaphor of noor in Masnavi as a linguistic tool to expand the meanings and epistemic concepts. For this reason, the writers have analyzed the first book of the Masnavi to get the conceptual metaphor of noor along with the semantic mediators and they have found that knowledge in the first book of the Masnavi is an epistemological category and Rumi is in agreement with this conceptual idea that the universe is light. He considered pure noor as vision, hearing, noor, existence, etc., as well as a means to explain the category of annihilation and survival.

CONCLUSION: In this regard, significant results have been achieved. Several meanings have been obtained, including noor as a perfect human being, as the sun, moon, food, etc. And the general result is that the assumptions of conceptual metaphor are suitable for analyzing and explaining the abstract categories considered by Molavi Bastari.

Keyword
conceptual metaphor , Johnson , Likaf , Mashnavi , Noor.

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