Conceptual Metaphors and Image Schemas in Selected Sayings of Al-Sahifa Al-Sajjadiyya: A Cognitive Semantic Study
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https://doi.org/10.31185/wjfh.Vol22.Iss2.1562Keywords:
Cognitive Linguistics, Conceptual Metaphors, Image Schemas, Sahifa Al-SajjadiyyaAbstract
In the present paper, I will analyze conceptual metaphors and image schemas in seven chosen sayings in Al-Sahifa Al-Sajjadiyya through the concept of cognitive semantics and especially the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) by Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1987). The research has answers to the question below: How do the conceptual metaphors and image schemas arrange abstract spiritual ideas in these supplications? The metaphors discovered in the analysis include GUIDANCE IS A PATH, SIN IS A BURDEN, and KNOWLEDGE/FAITH IS LIGHT, and recurring image schema (PATH, CONTAINER, FORCE) to help the readers to identify abstract spiritual notions like divine orientation and moral struggle with the help of tangible and embodied experience. These findings suggest that these tendencies do not merely transform abstract concepts like mercy and repentance into real experience but also into personal and familiar experience. The study testifies the fact that Al-Sahifa employs a sophisticated cognitive system that integrates spirituality and morality that are employed to conceptualize the literature of Islamic devotions and demonstrates universal cognitive processes organizing the abstract thinking with assistance of metaphors.
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