The metaphorical use of spatial prepositions in Sorani dialect

Abstract EN

Metaphorical cognition arises from the mapping of two conceptual domains onto each other, Based on the theory of conceptual metaphors, the present study aims at analyzing the metaphorical use of spatial prepositions in Sorani Dialect weekly press Although it is often thought that the metaphorical uses are idiomatic, the researchers suggest that some of the spatial prepositions retain their meaning metaphorically under a non-spatial relation stressing that the use of non-spatial prepositions is only a relative semantic change and is therefore a limited aspect of the spatial prepositions.