Conceptualizations of Hand in Jordanian Spoken Arabic: A Cognitive Perspective

Abumathkour, Hani (2021) Conceptualizations of Hand in Jordanian Spoken Arabic: A Cognitive Perspective. In: Doktoranduszok tanulmányai az alkalmazott nyelvészet köréből 2021. Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, Budapest, pp. 7-23. ISBN 9789639074941

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Abstract

The present paper is an attempt to investigate the domains where the conceptual metaphors and metonymies of the Arabic word jadd ‘hand’ in Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA) may trigger off frequently used idioms by speakers in Jordan. A corpus that consists of 50 idiomatic expressions from JSA has been built from two newly published sources: a dictionary of idiomatic expressions in JSA and a book of Jordanian proverbs. The analysis of the data which scrutinized conceptual metaphors and metonymies which exist in JSA is based on Lakoff and Johnson (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), investigation of hand mapping in English by Kovecses (1996), and Csabi’s (2004) categorizations of hand conceptualization in English and Hungarian. In many instances of idiomatic expressions in JSA, major conceptual metaphors and metonymies were present as in Csabi (2004). Nevertheless, there are some cases where the metaphors and metonymies in JSA were different in terms of frequency from the ones in English and Hungarian. The findings constitute some evidence that the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) applies to different languages and varieties.

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