Conceptual Metaphors and the Smell Perception in English and Arabic

Perception has long been seen as a basis for understanding abstract concepts and experiences their linguistic encoding. Conceptual metaphor is considered cognitive link between physical sensory mental representations. The olfactory perception treated peripherical in contrast to other sense modalities. purpose of the study establish how smell conceptually structured Arabic comparison with English examine conceptual metaphors based on our perception. Using theory metaphor, sought compare conception its metaphorical extensions both languages. data collected this was Modern written Standard acquired from online corpora total number sentences searched 3400 sentences. demonstrated that used source domain express suspicion, knowledge, emotions. expresses few extra including experiencing anticipating. emotions closely connected more than is. On hand, most prevalent employ target are INTENSITY OF SMELL IS EFFECT STRENGTH A PHYSICAL FORCE, which exist languages equally. Besides, not peripheral cognition it previously believed. It hoped contributed further appreciation function cognition.