Fonte: Revista Turismo Estudos e Práticas - RTEP/UERN; No. 2 (2020): Geplat: Caderno Suplementar ; 1-13
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Resumo: Contrary to the traditional rhetoricians who considered metaphor to be limited to literary text used as a mean for decoration of the speech, contemporary theoreticians see metaphor as a linguistic-conceptual mean that man uses it for knowing the surrounding phenomena. According to this theory, many of the most fundamental abstract notions such as time, quantity, cause, goal and etc, become understandable for man by the assistance of metaphor. The present study uses a descriptive-analytic method to comparatively assay the conceptualizations of the organ-word “head” in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, Odes of Shams and Nizami’s Khosrow & Shirin, from a cognitive perspective. This essay seeks to show the extent to which these poets have taken advantage of this key word in objectification of abstract concepts by means of conceptual metaphor. The research results show that the aforementioned poets despite their being under the influence of literary and linguistic traditions and the existing cultural roots sometimes have made use of the metaphors of similarity, they have been interested in a special group of abstract notions given the differences in thought and type of worldview and also their literary style and endeavored to conceptualize it by the aid of the organ-word of “head”.
