Conceptualizations of "Self-destruction" in Children's stories: Based on the Pragmatic Schemas

"Conceptualization" is a dynamic process based on which language units serve conceptual operations and background knowledge. Cognitive science experts consider language structure to be a direct reflection of cognition; Accordingly, a single word can have different conceptualizations in different situations. Schemas, as one of the tools of cognition, are general concepts that are created from the internalization of lived experiences and are responsible for organizing, interpreting and exchanging information. Pragmatic micro-schemas are micro-schemas that are called depending on the situational and functional context. This research, paying attention to the macro-schema of self-destruction, seeks to classify the pragmatic micro-schemas and their corresponding conceptualizations. The scope of the current research is children's stories with the theme of self-destruction. Each of the stories is considered as a pragmatic and objective situation for calling a specific micro-schemas of the macro-scheme of self-destruction. The present research with analytical-descriptive method aims to answer how to conceptualize the self-destruction scheme in the situational contexts of children's stories. The result of the research introduces five pragmatic schemas as five different conceptual bases: schemas of discontinuity, continuity, individual discontinuity-continuity, collective discontinuity-continuity, and unwanted discontinuity. For the first time, this article focuses on self-destruction in children's literature