Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• seyede Zeynab Hosseini ¹
• marzieh mohases ²

¹ hD student in the Faculty of Theology and Religions, Shahid Beheshti University

² Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology and Religions, Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

Conceptual metaphor is an important part of cognitive linguistics and is a tool for thinking that presents human facts and experiences in a new category. This article examines the conceptual metaphor of "rope" in the Qur'an, which while having the general meaning of connection and communication, has a structure consisting of several types of metaphors. In one verse, the rope is like a covenant and obligation on the parties who resort to the rope and shows the obligations arising from them, and in a verse, as a high direction, it conceptualizes a valuable position. In another form, the rope of a container is expressed as a sign that indicates the proximity of the transcendent to the servant, and in another metaphorical sense, with the characterization of the rope, the action of living beings is attributed to it. Through these metaphorical expressions, the Qur'an presents a different kind of contemplation and thought to the worlds and recites transcendent concepts to human beings in the form of simple matters and with fluent expression.

Keywords

• Conceptual metaphor
• ontological metaphor
• structural metaphor
• directional metaphor
• rope

Main Subjects

• Quran Language