حوزة مفهومى شكار و بازنمايى منفى آن در مقولة عشق: تحليلى شذاختى--فوهذكى

As a cognitive process, metaphor objectifies mental concepts in such a tangible form that the study of human mental structure would be possible. The goal of this research is to study the conceptual domain of "hunting" and its negative representation in love "dating and marriage" based on the conceptual metaphor theory and cultural linguistics (Palmer, 1996; Sharifian, 2013). With a reference to the Persian corpus and Persian proverbs we studied the metaphor "marriage is hunting" and its negative representation. Three micro metaphors obtained were "marriage is hunting," "marriage is theft," and "marriage is captivity," which through linguistic metaphoric expressions such as hunting, snapping, enthralling, grabbing, snatching, ensnaring, catching, trapping, capturing, enslaving, and harnessing all bearing a negative emotional connation both in the case of man or the woman. The research findings showed that we witness a negative metaphorical representation of hunting in "marriage". Sometimes a woman is a valuable catch and the prey for a male hunter but she sometimes takes the role of a hunter and the man is the prey. The results showed that factors such as gender, commitment to cohabitation and the suitability of couples in terms of appearance, economy, age, celibacy and ethical orientation affect metaphorical representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]