Open AccessInvestigating Conceptual Metaphorical Expression in English Suicide Notes: A Cognitive Linguistic Study
Author(s) -
Mawj Saadi Sabri Alkhayyat,
Naseer Shukur Hussein
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research in social sciences and humanities(online)/international journal of research in social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-4671
pISSN - 2249-4642
DOI - 10.37648/ijrssh.v11i03.035
Subject(s) - metaphor , embodied cognition , conceptual metaphor , cognition , cognitive semantics , expression (computer science) , conceptual system , semantics (computer science) , psychology , cognitive science , linguistics , component (thermodynamics) , cognitive linguistics , function (biology) , conceptual blending , human body , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , physics , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , biology , thermodynamics , programming language
The human experience is mysterious, so, metaphor is commonly used to portray lifeexperiences. The significance of metaphor for expressing and developing selfhood. Thefunction of metaphor in determining the conceptual meanings in suicide letters. Languagereflects our worldviews. Language is a component of the body. The technique is used toilluminate crucial issues in cognitive semantics that is linked between experience, theconceptual system, and the semantic structures encoded by language is studied in cognitivesemantics. These include conceptual metaphor and embodied cognition. The study's flaw isthat body metaphors and embodiment may be linked. A suicide note's cultural domain aspectand the importance of interpreting conceptual metaphoric notions cannot be overstated. Thestudy claims that body metaphors utilized in suicide can be systematized utilizing sensoryperceptual information of the outside environment. Either way, the body or actualcomponents as domains are clearly connected. Art is considered to require embodiment.