Investigating Pictorial Schemas and Conceptual Metaphores in the Thirteth Section of the Qur'an

One of the most fundamental infrastructures in cognitive semantics is the application of pictorial schemas and pictorial metaphores. Pictorial schemas are often the result of human's interaction with the exterior world which are formed in the formats of abstract concepts andare considered as basic instruments for understanding many mental concepts. This research has investigated the pictorial shemas in the thirthieth section of the Holy Qur'an. Such schemas are often adaptive to religious literary texts because of being universal and flexible. The current research is to answer this qouestion that to what extant such pictorial shemas which are used most frequently in the thirthieth section of the Holy Qur'an are categorized into three categories of "kinestic, volumetric, and power"? To what extant such schemas could be considered as proper patterns for studying the Qur'anic metaphors? After giving definitions about pictorial schemas and pictorial metaphores from a cognitive semantics, the researchers have discussed principles of conceptual metaphors and the different schemas used in the thirthieth section of the Holy Qur'an. The next stage is to collect data and instances based on this concept from the verses of thirthieth section of the Holy Qur'an using a descriptive-analytical reearch method. The findings of the research show that the observed infrastructure of metaphors in the selected verses contains different schemas which is a sample instance for the norms and anomalities mentioned in the Qur'an through use of metaphoes containing schemas of force, barrier, resolving the barriers, route change or divergence, reciprocal force, absorption and traction, and ability which all are adaptive and adminstrative based on this pattern.