Analyzing The Meaning of "Life" From Social-Cognitive Approach

The present study has analyzed the concept of "life" in Persian using two methods corpus-oriented and questionnaire-oriented. For this purpose, the frequency of effective maps in conceptualizing "life" in 120 sentences of Persian language databases was examined. It was found that in Persian languages , the source domain of "place" plays a greater role in conceptualizing "life" than others. In the questionnaire-oriented analysis, a questionnaire with 11 metaphorical-oriented and orientation-oriented (intellectual orientation) questionnaires was presented to 120 random samples. The sample was divided into 6 groups: women under 20, men under 20, women between 25 and 35, men between 25 and 35, women over 50 and men over 50. Questions were designed with simple sentences and the conscience of the speaker. The selected options of the questionnaire were 5 items and were selected from a range of "I’m strongly agree" to "I’m strongly disagree". In this study, it was found that different ages and genders of the Persian language society differ in defining the concept of "life". Finally, the "life" diagrams and concepts of the foundation corpus and the foundation questionnaire were compared. As a result, it was found that Persian society agrees with corpus-based maps of “life” concept.