Analysis of metaphorical mappings 'Animals' in the works of Afghani and Ishiguro

Metaphor has been a central theme of cognitive linguistic since its inception. Mapping the main concept in conceptual metaphors and expressing the correspondence relationship between a set of mental and objective concepts. The use of animal metaphors in stories reflectual intelectual and existential presence of animals in the minds of authors, and this shows the inseparable role of metaphor in human life. The present study with descriptive- analytical method, tries to analyze the conceptual metaphorical mappings based on the name and behavior of animals in the works of Afghani and Ishiguro ( japenese author of English origin) based on cognitive linguistic theory. For this purpose, research data based on the cognitive semantics approach in the framework of Lakoff and Johnson theoretical views with 36 metaphorical mapping of animals were extracted from the works of two authors ( 20 case of Afghani and 16 case of Ishiguro). Their differences and similarities in the areas of target and mapping names were investigated. The resuls of this study show the similarities between them and the difference is less. The purpose of this study is to investigate the metaphors in which the name or behavior of animals as a source domain is used and the characteristics of each animal are analyzed. Findings showed that the field of source of animals has been used by two Iranian and English authors with different cultures to describe the characteristics of individuals for negative traits and moral vices, which indicate the same reflection of speakers on the characteristics and temperament of the animals around them.