Exploring the cognitive concept of love in a non-literary context Persian and Arabic languages

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1 Official translator and visiting professor of Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

2 Full Professor of Arabic Language and Literature Department of Allameh Tabatabai University

10.22084/rjhll.2025.30385.2357

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With a cognitive approach, the current study examines the concept of love and its meanings in the general and non-literary parts of Persian and Arabic, with the intention of determining how love is expressed in this part and how metaphorical it is. Investigating the data reveals that, in contrast to other emotional concepts like anger, fear, sadness, and happiness, which are mostly metaphorical, love metaphors are not frequently used in common and daily used language. This may be due to the fact that the aforementioned emotions are common and required for carrying out life's essential activities; in other words, they constitute a crucial component of the survival mechanism for humans, but love is not an inevitable and permanent emotions, and this feature is reflected in the language as well, so that love has found a reality that is more literary and fantastical than typical and conventional.

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