Study of the Cognitive Metaphors Referring to Wordily and Heavenly Lives in the Quran

Of the most interesting studies done in recent decades about metaphor are the researches done by cognitive semantics, among whom we can point to the works of layoff and Johnson. These studies that are subset of cognitive semantics studies can be used for a better understanding and analysis of the Holy Quran, the book that is a complex text with different concepts. The purpose of this paper is to examine general metaphor ” recipient” and its subset metaphor “ life journey” about worldly and otherworldly life in the Quran point of view. The main reason for the formation of general conceptual metaphor is empirical correlation between "get something" and "go to place" in the human experience. Purposeful worldly and otherworldly life in general is specific example of having purpose. Thus, the trip that is an attempt to reach a predetermined destination, in general, is a special case of reaching to destination. As a result, special metaphor of "life is journey" that is one of the most popular terms of Quran is a subset of the general metaphor of "purpose is destination". In the metaphor of "life journey”, the journey is donor and life is recipient that include a lot of characteristics such as the area of origin, passengers, destinations, obstacles and the stop. The cognitive function of conceptual metaphor, by using A field enables the speaker to understand B field structure. This perception will be formed by using conceptual adaptation of A and B elements.