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Contrastive Analysis of Color Green as

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Comparative Analysis of Color "Green" as Metaphor in

Persian and English
By: Banafsheh Ghafel
Being pervasive in everyday life aspects, metaphors are used by writers and speakers to express abstract
concepts in terms of concrete entities as being easier to understand (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Lakoff, 1993). As
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a subclass of metaphors, color-based metaphors such as "black heart", "red carpet", "green thumb" and " yellow
belly" have their own functions. Of course, not all color-based metaphors are transferred with fixed meaning
rather development of some of them is culture-specific. Regarding being culture specific, color-based metaphors have commonly made speakers
of one language find it difficult to understand and appreciate the metaphors of another language.

This paper communicates some findings of comparative studies on Metaphorical Pattern Analysis (MPA) in Persian and English for color GREEN
to answer questions such as: what connotative meanings GREEN as a color-term metaphor conveys in Persian and English, on the one hand,
and if there is any significant cultural difference between connotations of GREEN color in the languages concerned, on the other. To do so, a set
of English and Persian color-based metaphors, particularly those of GREEN color, were collected and analyzed by the researcher from different
sources including the work of Philip, Bolonga,2006; Allen,2008; Zhinquen Xing,2008; Lan, MacGregor,2009; and Persian Dictionary software and
literary works in Persian. As a color-based metaphor, GREEN appears to be more connotatively oriented in Persian than English. Most of these
connotations are semantically positive. There are remarkable specifications for using this color term as metaphor culturally.

Keywords: Metaphor, Metaphorical Pattern Analysis, Color Term, Color-Based Metaphor, Connotation
Stream: Languages Education and Second Language Learning
Presentation Type: Virtual Presentation in English
Paper: Comparative Analysis of Color "Green" as Metaphor in Persian and English

Banafsheh Ghafel
MA student in TEFL, Faculty : Postgraduate Studies
Department:Applied Linguistics, Islamic Azad University
Isfahan, Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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