Document Type : Research paper
Authors
1 Graduate phd Student. Arabic Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University,, Khorramabad, Iran.
2 Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages. Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Associate Professor, Arabic Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
Abstract
Conceptual Blending Theory of Fauconnier and Turner (1992), in Cognitive Semantics, includes explanations for Conceptual Metaphors too. Accordingly, CM is the result of CB. Since the construction of LOVE metaphors in mystic texts involve complicated processes and requires semantic justification, this investigation aims at analysis of CM of LOVE in the book Fiqh Al- Eshq by Youssef Zidan, a famous Egyptian novelist. The results show that the author has selected input spaces including FIRE, FOOD, WATER, LIGHT, PLANT and FETUS to conceptualize mystic LOVE, because they have conceptual potentiality to simulate mystic LOVE and some of its related components through vital relation of analogy. The mental spaces of LOVE in one domain (i.e. Target) and the above sources spaces (i.e. Sources) are compressed and combined in another new space called the Blend. There are Generic spaces containing action, cause, change, motion etc. which manage the relation of input spaces. The selection of input spaces is based on background knowledge and situational-cultural context of the conceptualizer. Through this metaphorical integration, certain components such as the dynamics of love, its transformation, movement, suffering, joy, its knowledge are projected onto the blended space, and some other components, such as the characteristics of the beloved, remain floating. It seems that Zidan mostly focuses on the representation of love and the states of love. In the completion stage, the audience''s knowledge of mystical love helps him to fill out the semantic gaps, so the meaning can be fully run in the discourse situations.
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