AbstractThis study aims at conducting a contrastive study of colour metaphors in Persian and English within the framework of cognitive linguistics. To this end, it adopts primarily the revised model of Kövecses (2005), in which he treats metaphor as a cognitivecultural phenomenon. The results of the study indicate some similarities and differences between the colour metaphors in English and Persian. Similarities are mostly attributed to either a kind of universal motivation for the metaphors to emerge in the two languages or those which penetrating into Persian through translation, whereas differences found related to the colour metaphors in the two languages indicating the culture-specific nature of the colour metaphors
The main purpose of this paper is to extend the scope of English knowledge about color so as to arou...
Metaphor is the most important linguistic phenomenon which has been noted by the scientists, philoso...
The relationship between language and colour categorisation is explored testing the predictions of t...
AbstractThis study aims at conducting a contrastive study of colour metaphors in Persian and English...
This study sought answers related to the distribution of colour terms in Persian poems and their met...
This study sought answers related to the distribution of colour terms in Persian poems and their met...
Metaphorical language is an indispensable part of human life, involving language, thought and actio...
Color is all around but it is not everywhere treated in the same way. The terms people use to descri...
Metaphorical expressions often involve culturally-specific concepts, embodying associations related ...
AbstractThis study investigated the distribution of color terms in Persian proverbs in three Iranian...
From the point of view of physics and physiology, the perception of color should be the same by all ...
Abstract Metaphorical language is an indispensable part of human life, involving language, thought a...
This paper attempts to investigate and compare the conceptual metaphors of FEAR in Persian and Engli...
AbstractMetaphorical expressions are widely used in everyday language. The present study aims to exa...
The present paper is a comparative research aimed at scrutinizing cognitive metaphors in Persian and...
The main purpose of this paper is to extend the scope of English knowledge about color so as to arou...
Metaphor is the most important linguistic phenomenon which has been noted by the scientists, philoso...
The relationship between language and colour categorisation is explored testing the predictions of t...
AbstractThis study aims at conducting a contrastive study of colour metaphors in Persian and English...
This study sought answers related to the distribution of colour terms in Persian poems and their met...
This study sought answers related to the distribution of colour terms in Persian poems and their met...
Metaphorical language is an indispensable part of human life, involving language, thought and actio...
Color is all around but it is not everywhere treated in the same way. The terms people use to descri...
Metaphorical expressions often involve culturally-specific concepts, embodying associations related ...
AbstractThis study investigated the distribution of color terms in Persian proverbs in three Iranian...
From the point of view of physics and physiology, the perception of color should be the same by all ...
Abstract Metaphorical language is an indispensable part of human life, involving language, thought a...
This paper attempts to investigate and compare the conceptual metaphors of FEAR in Persian and Engli...
AbstractMetaphorical expressions are widely used in everyday language. The present study aims to exa...
The present paper is a comparative research aimed at scrutinizing cognitive metaphors in Persian and...
The main purpose of this paper is to extend the scope of English knowledge about color so as to arou...
Metaphor is the most important linguistic phenomenon which has been noted by the scientists, philoso...
The relationship between language and colour categorisation is explored testing the predictions of t...