Figurative Language
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The Figurative İmage İn Adnan Al-Sayigh's Poetry in Adnan Al-Sayegh's Poetry
Lamia Yassin Hamza, Shazad Karim Othman
Adnan Al-Sayegh is a modern poet, one of the pioneers of modernity and prose poetry, who carries a great deal of pain, alienation, and longing for the land of Iraq. He embodies all this suffering in figurative images of (simile, metaphor, and metonymy), which have the most prominent presence in his poetry. Therefore, our study focused on the figurative language in Adnan Al-Sayegh's poetry through a rhetorical analysis of his verses, as his poetry is rich in figurative images that convey the creator's ideas and visions, in addition to faithfully expressing his emotions. This study contributed to examining these images to highlight their rhetorical values, which play a role in deepening the idea and clarifying the meaning. Since the rhetorical aspect does not reveal the beauty of the text without understanding and analyzing it, we turned to critical study to interpret and delve into the analysis of poetic texts. In light of the critical study, poetic texts are interpreted and understood. The research addressed the study of simile through simple and compound similes, as well as metaphor in all its forms. Metonymy was studied through the metonymy of quality, the metonymy of the described, and the metonymy of relation, with poetic texts mentioned for each topic to prove the point and express the poet's ability to exploit rhetorical arts to present modern conceptual imagery. I relied on the analytical descriptive method to clarify the poetic texts. At the end of the research, the findings were presented, demonstrating how Adnan Al-Sayegh skillfully conveyed his ideas with high capability through his artistic rhetorical tools, which he employed in a way that serves the poetic text.
Volume 11 · Issue 3 · June 2024Orientational Metaphor in Central Kurdish
Karzan Abdullah Jezhny, Srwa Faisal Aziz, Dyar Ali Kamal
This study is entitled "Orientational Metaphor in Central Kurdish". It attempts to explicate how non-spatial concepts are metaphorised in terms of various aspects of space in Central Kurdish. The main aim of the study is to interpret spatial metaphorical expressions that express the cognitive processes of meaning-making. The study adopts the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT)within the framework of cognitive semantics. It deals with orientational metaphor as a specific type of conceptual metaphor. In cognitive semantics, language is a mirror of thought; linguistic expressions are manifestations of conceptual mappings structured in the mind. The data of the study is taken from ordinary everyday Kurdish. The data analysis illuminates the spatialization of a wide variety of abstract concepts through metaphorical uses of space. The study is in line with the cognitive linguists in that linguistic expressions that represent concepts are not semantically independent, as the Anglo-American philosophical tradition claimed, but are structured with respect to one another. Spatial concepts are first structured in thought in the form of a formula based on physical and socio-cultural experiences, and then expressed via linguistic metaphors; accordingly, metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon, it is in thought, not in language. It is patterns of thought that are echoed in patterns of language.