Conceptualization of Anger in Modern Standard Arabic and English: a Comparative Study

Figurative language is part of our everyday life where meaning communicated indirectly. Metaphor among the major figurative devices that are commonly encountered in interactions. This study investigates use metaphors employed to conceptualize abstract concepts, namely anger both English and Arabic. For this purpose, a corpus metaphorical expressions denoting languages was utilized. These were classified based on their mappings later analyzed using Kövecses’ (2002) framework. The results indicate although two share several conceptualizations, they have specific differences. differences attributed differences, genius vocabulary repertoire often influence conceptualization process. Culture also proved be another source elements like climate lifestyle manipulate emotions general particular Arabic prospective topic requires further research.