A Comparative Study of Directional Conceptual Metaphors in the Works of Mahmoud Dolatabadi and Yousef Idris

(Based on the theory of conceptual metaphors by George Likoff and Mark Johnson)Contemporary achievements of linguistics indicate that language, in addition to conveying referential themes, reflects cognitive themes and induces mental themes. Based on this, cognitive semantists have conducted studies in this field and have proposed theories that can be referred to the theory of conceptual metaphors of George Lycoff and Mark Johnson. The present article has been written with the aim of comparatively examining the conceptual metaphor of direction in the first three volumes of Mahmoud Dolatabadi's key novel and the four novels (Al-Bayda, Al-Askari Al-Aswad, Al-Haram and Al-Aib) by Yusuf Idris. The research method is comparative and data collection, which is based on the American school in the comparison and analysis of data. Analysis of 125 examples of conceptual metaphors of direction in the form of 23 mapping names, which were extracted from the aforementioned works of two writers, concluded that the similarities between conceptual metaphors based on human understanding of "direction" between the two languages are far greater than There are differences. On the other hand, the differences between the two writers indicate the influence of culture on the construction of conceptual metaphors. According to Likoff and Johnson's views on the foundations of directional conceptual metaphors, frequencies indicate that in the works of the two writers, conceptualizations are based on top-down spatial orientations, mostly on a physical basis, and in other directions, conceptualizations. Also on a physical basis;