Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Fatemeh Habibi
• fathiyeh fattahizadeh ¹
• Azita Afrashi ²

¹ Professor of Quranic Sciences and Hadith of Al-Zahra University

² Associate Professor of Linguistics, Research Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

The present study tries to clarify by comparing two of the most widely used manifestations of language in the Qur'an, namely "speech" and "word" based on the theory of conceptual metaphor, firstly, how these two concepts are represented by conceptual metaphor and secondly by the influence of this view. Focus on understanding religious propositions. The study of 173 metaphorical expressions related to The word"speech" and its derivatives," indicates that these two words in the Qur'an, using the same domains of similar origin and location, different domains of origin and movement, as well as two common destinations (creation and inevitable judgment) structuring. The conceptualization of speech has been done in the form of conceptual metaphors. In addition, since speaking is a human and experiential event for human beings, abstract matters such as the creation and certainty of divine judgment in the Holy Qur'an have been conceptualized with the help of words and speech in the place of the source of origin, which violates one of the principles of the theory of conceptual metaphor, The principle of one side.

Keywords

• The Holy Quran
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Conceptual Metaphor
• Speech
• word