Razieh Salemi

Ph.D. Candidate in TEFL, Department of English Language, Faculty of Letters & Humanities, Shahrekord University, Iran

[ 1 ] - A Cognitive Study of Conceptual Metaphors in English and Persian: Universal or Culture-Specific?

In the last 2 decades, studies on conceptual metaphors have profoundly increased. The development in this field was followed by Lakoff and Johnson's (1980b) work on describing the conceptual role played by metaphors and their correspondence with language and thought. This study aimed to compare conceptual metaphors in Persian and English through a corpus-based approach as well as examining both...

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