An Anthropolinguistic Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Idioms Containing Religious Believes and Signs in Spanish and Persian languages

The present research deals with the comparative analysis of idiomatization, based on the influence of religious beliefs and signs in Spanish and Farsi, in the framework of anthropolinguistic approach. The cultural issues and the impact of culture on language are dominated in this approach.Since idioms are inseparable part of folk knowledge, and the religious beliefs are among the most influential cultural elements, the authors aimed at comparing 5o idioms based on religious beliefs and signs, in Spanish and Farsi in order to analyze the impact of the cultural issues on how native speakers of Spanish and Persian idiomatizea common concept. Research results show both difference and similarity in idiomatization based on religious beliefs and signs in Spanish and Farsi.As these two cultures are both conceived in religious contexts, they make use of religious beliefs and signs for idiomatization. However, since Spanish culture employs concepts of Catholicism and Persian culture employs concepts of Shii, the referents of these concepts are different across the two languages.