LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Metaphor of Nature in the Holy Quran:
A Critical Metaphor Analysis

Mostapha Thabit Mohamed, Ph.D. in Linguistics

Abstract

The present study investigates the metaphors of natural phenomena in the Holy Quran. These metaphors fall into five major classifications: 1- metaphors of rain, 2- metaphors of mountain, 3- metaphors of wind, 4- metaphors of light, and 5- metaphors of darkness. The analysis in this study is conducted within the framework of Charteris-Black’s theory of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) (2005). Based on this theory, the study assigns a conceptual metaphor for each classification of metaphors. The study ends up with a key metaphor that relates all the conceptual metaphors resulted from the analysis of different classifications of these metaphors.

Keywords: metaphor, metaphors of nature , metaphors in the Holy Quran.

1. Introduction

Metaphor has been traditionally studied and analyzed within the framework of rhetorics, literary works and literary studies. It has been related to figurative language and has been regarded as "just a kind of artistic embellishment", or something that is "divorced and isolated from everyday language" (Murray & Moon, 2006 ). Moreover, traditional teaching of metaphors presents language as an unusual or deviant way of using language" (Goatly, 1997). In addition, as Goatly has put it philosophers have wanted metaphor strictly confined to "literature, rhetoric and art" (1997). To sum up, metaphor is regarded as something that belongs to literary forms which is more concerned with novel or interesting uses of words ( see Goatly,1997; Murray & Moon, 2006 ).

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Mostapha Thabit Mohamed, Ph.D. in Linguistics
Department of English
Faculty of Arts
Minia University
Egypt
mostapha.thabit6@gmail.com
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