Afef Badri
University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abstract
Zoltán Kövecses introduced the notion of
“context-induced creativity” that he argues that it “has not so far been systematically explored in the
cognitive linguistic literature on metaphor”. Research on conceptual metaphor
of the heart has lacked focus on exploring creativity in
the metaphorical expressions utilized to conceptualize the heart. Also there is
very limited research on the heart metaphor in religious and particularly Sufi
discourse. To my knowledge only Nørager (2007) and Maalej (2008) have explored this area. The present paper
applies a conceptual metaphor paradigm with special reference to Kövecses’
(2015) model of metaphorical creativity to study creativity in the
conceptualization of the heart in Al-Ghazali’s The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Corpus analysis has indicated that the
novelty and creativity of heart metaphors are induced
by a range of contextual variables: (1) the immediate physical setting, (2)
knowledge about the major participants in the discourse, (3) the immediate
cultural context, (4) the immediate social setting, and (5) the immediate
linguistic context and that creativity is dependent on available conventional
conceptual resources.
Keywords: conceptual metaphor, Sufi discourse, context,
metaphorical creativity
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