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标题：Symbolism and Domain of Numbers in English and Persian Metaphorical Expressions in the Light of Al-Hasnawi's Cognitive Model
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作者：Banafsheh Ghafel ; Abbass Eslami Rasekh
期刊名称：Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2039-2117
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：3
DOI：10.5901/mjss.2012.v2n3p575
出版社：Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER)
摘要：Cognitive linguistics views language in terms of concepts, either universal or culture specific. Language is both embodied and situated in a specific environment; in this connection, metaphorical expressions (hereafter MEs) such as idioms, proverbs, and slang are pervasive and interesting to study. Numbers are widely used to form such MEs as ‘a cat has nine lives’, ‘third time is charm’ and ‘to be scattered to the four winds’. The present study investigates MENs in English and Persian within Al-Hasnawi's three-scheme cognitive model (2007). The aims are twofold: (i) to identtify the extent of culture-specify in English and Persian metaphorical expressions of numbers (hereafter MENs); (ii) to see how symbolic meaning of numbers is a determining factor in the construction of metaphorical expressions. The findings show that, although a small number of ideas in domain of numbers are shared between Persian and English, the majority of them are culture-bound and are thus filtered by symbolism, value and belief system of their host community.
关键词：Metaphorical Expressions of Numbers; Number symbolism; Cognitive Linguistics; Mapping Condition