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Conceptual Metaphors of “Selm” Verses… Z. Mirsepasi et al (47
Body part metaphors “are metonymy for human
perhaps best considered as existence.
blends of metaphor and Cognitively, the understanding
metonymy based on some of the abstract concept of
familiar relations of “submitting” is based on
correspondence of particular the experienced situation. It
parts of the body with means that for example in
particular actions”. our normal life We move
(Charteris-Black, 2004: 105) our face in different
There is a conceptual directions, so submitting is
metaphor when it is said organized based on parts of
“submitted faces to Allah”. the body. That is, for a
According to the Charteris- better understanding of the
Black criteria for target domain of “Selm”,
distinguishing conceptual the source domain of parts
metaphor, in terms of of the body has been used
linguistic criteria, submitted to convey the concept.
faces to Allah is reification; Also, in terms of
because “face” which in pragmatic criteria, in this
other contexts refers to verse, after explaining the
something concrete, for source of religious
example we say he turned differences, Allah points to
his face towards Ali, the part of this difference,
pointed to surrendering to which was the dispute
Allah which is abstract and between Jews and Christians
created a semantic tension, with the Prophet of Islam
while the face here is also a and says:
