Conceptual Metaphors of Shame in Persiam Classic Poetry

This paper surveys the conceptual metaphors of shame in Persian classical poetry of Iraqi style. The theoretical framework of this research is based on Metaphor and Emotion: Language, culture and body in human feeling (Kovecses 2010). Main question of the research is: What are the source domains of the conceptual metaphors of shame in Persian? The research aim is to find the core metaphor of shame in Persian with reference to Persian classical poetry. In doing so the DORJ 3 and Language Corpus of the Department of Lexicography in the Academy of Language and Literature were searched with the keywords of “sharm” and “haya”. Instances of Persian classical Poetry were found in which “shame” was understood in a conceptual metaphor. In this way 220 metaphorical structures were found and analyzed. As the result 10 name of the mappings were found for the conceptual metaphor of shame and a network was presented which apparently constitutes the concept of shame in Persian.