A Linguistic Study of the Conceptual Metaphor of ‘Society is Human’ in the Holy Quran

This study aims to consider the conceptual metaphors of ‘society is human’ in the Holy Quran. The corpus of the current study includes all the Quranic verses about ‘society’ and ‘human’. Lakoff’s (۱۹۸۰) conceptual metaphor theory is used to analyze the corpus. The results show that there are twenty-six mappings for the “society is human” metaphor in the Holy Quran. Moreover, the study confirms that society and human lifespans are similar according to the Holy Quran. Therefore, just as God depicts the birth and beginning of man, He also depicts the birth and beginning of societies. That is, society and human are conceptualized in the same pattern in the Holy Quran. In addition to a single human being and a society, God has considered such a birth for a generation. This study shows that all regulations that are true for human beings in various fields, including economics, culture, etc., will also be true for society. The present research attempts to investigate and analyze the conceptual metaphor of the Quran regarding humans and society using the linguistic approach, especially Lakoff's cognitive ideas. Accordingly, the study tries to cover the issue of the mappings related to the conceptual metaphor “society is human” in the Quran.

کلیدواژه ها:

Conceptual Metaphors ، Linguistics ، Quran ، Lakoff