Abstract:
This study examines the function of conceptual metaphor in two memoirs, “I'm Alive” and “Sheena's Daughter”. Based on this, text analysis is a qualitative analysis obtained through frequencies. Ontological metaphor, the domain of the destination of feeling, and the domains of its origin and their function are the basis of this research. The findings show that the ontological metaphor with the purpose it feels, and the objects of origin are numerous: "force", "container", "objects", "temperature", "food", "liquid inside the container", "goods" and "burden" have a high frequency in both books. The compositions "the heart is the container", "emotion is the liquid inside the container", "emotion is temperature", "the effect of emotion is force" have a significant frequency in both books. However, some compositions in the book "I am alive" have a higher frequency, which is caused by the special situation of the narrator in captivity. The analysis of these metaphors shows that women take help from tangible and familiar environmental phenomena related to women's world to convey their abstract and emotional concepts and create a large amount of ontological metaphors. Women's thoughts are a mixture of feelings and details of the world outside the mind, which express many daily actions and concerns, and make them see more of the existing conditions and think less idealistically.
Machine summary:
The findings show that ontological metaphor, with the target domain of emotion and the effect of emotion, and multiple source domains such as: "power," "container," "objects," "temperature," "food," "liquid inside a container," "commodity," and "load," has a high frequency in both books.
1-1- Research Background Regarding these two works, research has been conducted such as: "Critical Discourse Analysis of Shina's Daughter" by Mahboub Basmal, "Investigation and Critique of the Novels Umm Sa'ad and Shina's Daughter Based on the Analysis Approach Fairclough's critical discourse analysis" by Masoumeh Ghahramnpour and colleague, "Story elements of Holy Defense memoirs with emphasis on the work Shina's Daughter" by Elham Zare and colleagues, "Analysis of the narrative element in the memoir of Shina's Daughter based on Gerard Genette's theory" by Elham Zare and colleagues, "Investigating the female writing style of war memoirs at the lexical level, a case study of I Am Alive by Masoumeh Abad" by Asieh Hosseinalizadeh, "The effect of lived experience on the nature of narrative elements (a case study of I Am Alive)" by Farzaneh Hedayatzadeh and colleague, "Reflection of Jung's archetypal patterns in the book I Am Alive" by Farzaneh Arab Yousef Abadi and colleague, "An analytical comparison of Holy Defense captivity letters based on story elements with emphasis on three works: I Am Alive, The Imam's Little Soldier, and Keykavous" by Mohammadreza Nasr Esfahani and colleague.
The frequency of the source domain "liquid inside the container" for expressing emotions is higher in the book Man Zendeh Am (22 cases) and lower in the book Dokhtar-e Shina (6 cases).
The frequent use of the mapping "emotion is a liquid inside a container" in the book Man Zendeh Am indicates the great psychological pressure that has been imposed on this woman during her period of captivity.
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