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Mahmoud Darwish Conceptual Metaphor

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I- Introduction “The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality”, said the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish who was exiled from his country in 1948 to show that he considered Palestine as a metaphor for both his passion and his misery; his passion because he loved his country and his misery because of his exile. Darwish is the most praised poet in the Arab world and his love and attachment towards Palestine are what contributed to his literary accomplishments, for which he has won several awards. He has written several poems that contain a lot of metaphors and more specifically conceptual metaphors. Conceptual metaphor refers to the concept of understanding one idea in terms of another. The linguist George Lakoff and the …show more content…

An example of one of the commonly used conceptual metaphors given by Lakoff and Johnson in their book is "ARGUMENT IS WAR". This metaphor forms our language in the way we consider argument as war or as a battle to be won, which leads to saying expressions such as ‘He won that argument’, ‘I demolished his argument’, and ‘We attacked every weak point in his argument’. This study contains: in the first part, the definition and types of metaphors (linguistic and conceptual); in the second part, the systematicity and types (orientational, ontological and structural) of conceptual metaphors that are identified by Lakoff and Johnson; in the third part, an analysis of the several themes (love/desire, exile/homeland and political/philosophical act) and types (orientational, ontological, structural) of conceptual metaphors that are found in Mahmoud Darwish’s book entitled The Butterfly’s Burden (2007); and in the fourth part the analysis of the translation of these metaphors from Arabic to English using a specific method, which is Mandelblit’s Cognitive Translation Hypothesis, a method that focuses on the conceptualization of metaphors. In other words, this method emphasizes on the culture of the metaphor of both the source and target language and their

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