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- Title
Metaphorical Description of Non-Motion Events in Terms of Motion Events in Persian and English.
- Authors
Eskandari, Zahra; Khatin-Zadeh, Omid
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the ways that non-motion events are metaphorically described in terms of motion events in Persian and English. To achieve this objective, a corpus of Persian and English sentences collected from various sources was analysed. Results of this analysis showed that the ways that non-motion events are described in terms of motion events are similar in Persian and English in two respects: firstly, the percentages of expression of each main components of motion events (figure, manner, path, source, goal, ground) were very close to each other in Persian and English; secondly, manner was the most-expressed component in the metaphorical descriptions of non-motion events in terms of motion events. Furthermore, a comparison was made between Persian and English in terms of locus and semantic density in such metaphorical descriptions.
- Subjects
GESTURE; PERCENTILES
- Publication
Te Reo, 2021, Vol 64, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0494-8440
- Publication type
Article