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               76  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (28): 65-94, Autumn 2021
                  Finally,  we  explain  the                in particular discourses.
               metaphors,  identify  the  social            Identification         and
               factors    that   motivate    the            description   of     these
               audience  and  identify  the                 conceptual          levels
               rhetorical  motives  and  ideas              enhances              our
               behind the verses.                           understanding  of  their
                  Conceptual keys, conceptual               role  in  ideology  and
               metaphors, and metaphors organize            contributes  to  theory

               the conceptual level hierarchically:         building    because      it
                      Conceptual metaphors and              provides a point of access
                      conceptual     keys    are            into  the  thoughts  that
                      abstract inferences from              underlie  language  use.
                      the  linguistic  evidence             (Ibid: 244)
                      provided  by  particular
                      metaphors.  (Charteris-           He  refers  to  the  advantages
                      Black, 2004: 244)              of placing individual metaphors
                                                     of    different   domains      of
                  He considers the purpose of        language  in  a  hierarchical
               inferring conceptual metaphors        system and he considers its first
               to identify the patterns governing    advantage  to  be  saving  in
               the  internal  relations  between     description; He believes that if
               metaphors  that  confirm  their       we can explain more metaphors

               meaning. He believes:                 by     referring     to    fewer
                      Interrelating  conceptual      conceptual  metaphors,  and  if
                      metaphors  through  the        we     can      explain     more
                      identification of conceptual   conceptual     metaphors      by
                      keys    can    assist   in     referring  to  fewer  conceptual
                      accounting for coherence       keys,  we  will  achieve  a  more
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