Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

Biological Motivation of the Metaphorical Narratives of the Corporal Soul Based on Holistic Medicine

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Ph.D. Student of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign languages. Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/jlc.2023.377975.1533
Abstract
The interaction between body and culture is one of the significant topics in cognitive semantics. The present interdisciplinary research, focusing on the embodiment factor, tries to examine the existing conceptualizations in both Persian and English through a cognitive approach and based on the physiological characteristics of the respiratory system and skin in holistic medicine. Therefore, referring to the special position of the lungs in Greek/Iranian holistic medicine as the receiver of respiratory pneuma, in traditional Chinese medicine as the place of the corporal soul, and in Indian medicine (Ayurveda) as an organ adjacent to the heart chakra, the authors try to investigate the biological motivation of the metonymy-based metaphors related to the respiratory system. Despite the slight differences in the metaphorical expressions, the findings of this research show an extraordinary convergence in the conceptualizations and the metaphorical narration of the function of the lung and the organ related to it, i.e. the skin, in which speech is a precious soul/object, inspiration is a blowing soul, and love is breathing in the air of a lover. Also, the skin is a protective armor, and a vessel for the soul. In short, the data analysis shows that knowing the various biological characteristics of organs and their functions based on holistic philosophy and medicine is a suitable platform for identifying the biological origin of biological metonymies, which can be a justification for making relatively identical metaphors.
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Volume 8, Issue 15
May 2024
Pages 110-79

  • Receive Date 24 December 2022
  • Revise Date 22 May 2023
  • Accept Date 24 May 2023