fa Conceptual metaphor: Theoretical challenges فلسفه ذهن و زبان شناسی شناختی پژوهشي اصیل Research <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black">Conceptual</span> Metaphor Theory (CMT), proposed by George Lakoff et al., refers to understanding one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another. Conceptual metaphor is crucial in the organization of human experience and abstract thinking. CMT has been used as a framework to form interdisciplinary studies. Thus the theory has been expanded through different fields and formed new approaches to analyze old problems in various disciplines such as literature, psychology, and alike. However, this lecture focused on a few methodological restrictions of CMT, such as using limited examples from English, mainly based on intuition, being inattentive to linguistic data from other language families, and restricted use of corpus-based studies. In addition to those methodological restrictions, terminological and conceptual challenges reduce the precision of analyses within this framework. Borders between conceptual metaphor and terms and concepts such as the following are widely uncertain: perception verbs polysemy, metonymy, physiological metaphors of emotion, and synesthesia. The data to show these terminological challenges have been gathered through long-term research on Persian Language Data Base (PLDB) and Persian language literature prose and poetry.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" times=""> </span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black">Conceptual</span> Metaphor Theory (CMT), proposed by George Lakoff et al., refers to understanding one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another. Conceptual metaphor is crucial in the organization of human experience and abstract thinking. CMT has been used as a framework to form interdisciplinary studies. Thus the theory has been expanded through different fields and formed new approaches to analyze old problems in various disciplines such as literature, psychology, and alike. However, this lecture focused on a few methodological restrictions of CMT, such as using limited examples from English, mainly based on intuition, being inattentive to linguistic data from other language families, and restricted use of corpus-based studies. In addition to those methodological restrictions, terminological and conceptual challenges reduce the precision of analyses within this framework. Borders between conceptual metaphor and terms and concepts such as the following are widely uncertain: perception verbs polysemy, metonymy, physiological metaphors of emotion, and synesthesia. The data to show these terminological challenges have been gathered through long-term research on Persian Language Data Base (PLDB) and Persian language literature prose and poetry.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""> </span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</div> Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), Conceptual challenges, Persian Language Data Base (PLDB) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), Conceptual challenges, Persian Language Data Base (PLDB) 5 0 http://icssjournal.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-79&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Azita Afrashi Azita Afrashi A.afrashi@ihcs.ac.ir 100319475328460015208 100319475328460015208 Yes Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies