concept of figure & ground forms an important part of cognitive linguistics....

prior to the appearance of the cognitive linguistics...

Speakers use schemas to organize their knowledge of the world. Without these mental

structures, communication would be too difficult, if not impossible. Schemas are of different

kinds and event schemas are ...

This study takes as primary the analysis of the use of the metaphorical expression in Persian political texts and categorizes them into various fields including:human being\\'s body member, nature, human being\\'s ...

In this article we study a specific sort of schema, called “event schema” in one of the Suras of the Quran. Event schema as discussed by Dirven & Verspoor (2004) has several such sub-branches as “doing schema”, “having ...

The major aim of this study was to explore how the body parts play roles in Persian political texts as metaphorical expressions according to cognitive point of view. Due to this fact, by examining a number of contemporary ...