Friendly Hand – Accusing Finger. Metaphors in the Persian Political Discourse
Friendly Hand – Accusing Finger. Metaphors in the Persian Political Discourse

Author(s): Sirma Kostadinova
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Political Theory, Political behavior, Politics and communication, Phraseology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Persian language; conceptual metaphors; human body; nation; country
Summary/Abstract: Subject of this paper are metaphorical linguistic expressions, which reflect the relation between the target domains of NATION and COUNTRY and the source domain of HUMAN BODY in Persian. Media analyses on Iranian policy, speeches, and statements of government officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran are the main source for the research. The corpus of the collected phraseological units is analysed and classified in the light of the Conceptual metaphor theory. Metaphorical linguistic expressions containing the terms 𝑑𝑎𝑠𝑡 “hand”, 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑜š𝑡 “finger” and 𝑚𝑜š𝑡 “fist” are in the focus of the paper. It discusses the question if Persian political discourse demonstrates features of cultural conceptualisations, providing comparative analysis with English and Bulgarian. It is a part of a broader research on conceptual metaphors in contemporary Persian.

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