An Analysis of the Conceptual Metaphor of the Qur'anic Verses Related to the Resurrection Day

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D., Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy, Qom, Iran (Corresponding Author).

2 Instructor and Deputy of Women seminaries of Mazandaran. Mazandaran, Iran

Abstract

The theory of metaphor, a concept introduced in the last decades of the twentieth century by two linguists, George Lycoff and Mark Johnson, challenged traditional theories. According to this theory, conceptual metaphor is rooted in the human mind and flows subconsciously in human daily life. Lycoff and Johnson have divided conceptual metaphor into three types: structural, ontological, and directional. In the present study, we have studied the verses related to the Resurrection with an analytical-theoretical method, in which a conceptual metaphor has been used in order to better understand and better comprehend what is unknown to us from that world, such as events, miqats and 170 letters. The results of the research indicate that the Holy Quran, due to the unfamiliarity and intangibility of the world after death, has used the form and tools of language as a metaphor to better understand this event; But the important point in this research is that among the verses of the Qur'an in which conceptual metaphor is used in different types, most of these metaphors are related to the Great Resurrection, which God has expressed through the conceptual metaphor of the Resurrection and its circumstances. Its ontological type includes the most words and the structural and directional type is in the next order. This shows that transcendental and futuristic topics are more plausible to the audience in the form of metaphors.

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  • Receive Date: 03 March 2021
  • Revise Date: 15 May 2021
  • Accept Date: 24 April 2021

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