Cognitive investigation of image schemas in Surah Saba

Document Type : Research Paper

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دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد دانشگاه تهران،

10.30512/kq.2024.21257.3837

Abstract

Image schemas are one of the topics of cognitive linguistics, and the analysis of religious and literary texts based on its different approaches can play an effective role in understanding the texts. In other words, image schemas are a type of conceptual construction that has a significant impact on cognitive semantics. One of the most important approaches in this field is the theory of image schemas of Likoff and Johnson, which is based on movement, power and volume schemas. The current research is an analytical-descriptive study that investigates image schemas and tries to explain the abstract and mental concepts in Surah Saba based on the theory of image schemas. From the findings of the research, it is inferred that image schemas with a frequency of 61 cases and in three levels of volume, movement and power are found in Surah Saba and have created. Power the movement schemes that point to the goal and goal and are more compatible with the nature of the surah have been assigned the second rank. Power schemas have the lowest frequency and reflect abstract concepts in the form of barriers. The presence of visual schemas in Surah Saba has caused abstract concepts to be concretely and widely understood in the mind of the audience.

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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 17 June 2025
  • Receive Date: 16 February 2024
  • Revise Date:
  • Accept Date: 08 July 2024