Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the Verb “Qata” in Quran

Principled polysemy is a significant issue in cognitive linguistics, which is an important issue to notice. This framework had founded by Tyler and Evans and had mentioned in their book “The Semantics of English Prepositions”. This work helps cognitive analysis and provides suitable basis for researchers and analyzers. Using this issue in religion contexts specially, Qur’an is more important and efficient. The purpose of this paper is to study the semantic network of the verb “Qata” in Qur’an in order to realize its cognitive relations. The used method is analytical descriptive, at first it describes theory framework and then analyses and processes using data. Findings indicate that the verb “Qata” in Qur’an is in a micro-network. The most frequent mechanisms of meaning creation in this network are foregrounding. The most frequent meanings are the first meaning that has used in intellectual spaces. This frequent shows the importance of god commands and necessity of following prophet, Mohammad.