نوع مقاله : پژوهشی
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In many religious texts, especially the Holy Qur’an, abstract concepts are expressed through image schemas, which play a fundamental role in deepening semantic understanding. The Ḥawāmīm chapters are particularly noteworthy in this regard, as they exhibit specific conceptual connections that can be explored through cognitive linguistics and the analysis of these structures. The present study, adopting a cognitive-linguistic approach and employing a descriptive–analytical method, examines and analyzes image schemas within the semantic context of these chapters in order to elucidate their role in conveying abstract concepts and internal structural coherence among them. Findings indicate that three main types of image schemas—motion, containment, and force—occur frequently throughout the Ḥawāmīm chapters, each contributing to the representation of particular conceptual domains. The motion schema is predominantly used to illustrate notions such as the descent of revelation, the salvation of believers, and the afterlife punishment. It operates through dimensions such as directionality, dynamism, and upward or downward movement, explaining semantic processes of descent and ascent. The containment schema characterizes ideas like the heavenly and earthly keys, coverings over hearts, and immersion in falsehood, depicting bounded mental spaces that symbolize epistemic limitation or openness. Conversely, the force schema accounts for concepts like the punishment of past nations, arrogance toward divine signs, and seeking refuge from satanic temptations through interactions involving power, resistance, obstruction, and domination.Accordingly, the schema system embedded in the Ḥawāmīm chapters exhibits a coherent structure that effectively explicates the relationship between linguistic form and abstract Qur’anic meaning
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