نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استادیار، گروه زبانشناسی، دانشکده علوم انسانی، دانشگاه بوعلیسینا، همدان، ایران.
2 استاد گروه زبانشناسی دانشگاه بوعلی سینا
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
This paper seeks to demonstrate the rate and cognitive model of hopelessness and hopefulness in Iranian society over a period of five decades spanning from the 1970s up until the 2010s, in response to the perspective that Iranians are currently experiencing greater hopelessness than in the past. The prevailing emotions within a society, including but not limited to hopelessness and hopefulness, can be reflected through language. In fact, these emotions, alongside others, are encoded in language through cognitive mechanisms such as the conceptual metaphor and linguistic construction. Based on a written and spoken corpus encompassing films, novels, news broadcasts, official speeches as well as the models employed, namely Kövecses (2020) and findings of Construction Grammar, it can be observed that hopefulness and hopelessness have exhibited a fluctuating pattern across all subsets of the corpus over the five decades examined. The results illustrate that the emotion of hopelessness has increased significantly and consistently in the Iranian society over the fifty-year period in line with global trends of hopelessness increase. Moreover, regarding the cognitive model of hope, it is worth noting that Iranians conceptualize "hopelessness" as ‘inability’ and contrast it with "hopefulness" which is conceptualized in terms of ‘object’ and ‘reliance on another entity’.
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