A Comparative Study of Conceptual Metaphor of Time in Nasser-Khosrow and Akhavan-Salis` Poetry

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One of the most complex issues in conceptual metaphor theory is the nature of time representation. As time is an exemplar of abstract concepts, investigating how to represent time in conceptual systems has led to some important problems in the cognitive theory. Conceptual metaphors have been realized in different form by poets at different ages. Certainly familiarity with their attitudes and perspectives will be effective in understanding the linguistic and cultural characteristics of each period. Hence, the researcher has selected Akhavan and Nasser-Khosrow who belong to two different centuries. Reviewing Akhavan’s The End of Shahnameh and From This Avesta and Nasser-Khosrow`s poetry, 160 conceptual metaphors related to time were extracted out of which 12 and 14 mappings were obtained respectively from Akhavan and Nasser-Khosrow. Investigating these mappings, we concluded that perspectives of these poets toward time are similar and different in some respects due to different experiences and the different contexts where they lived.

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