Somayeh Hatamzadeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 9301931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Somayeh Hatamzadeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Somayeh |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatamzadeh |
| SIGNATURE | HATAMZADEH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Isfahan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9831-300X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hair or fist: Framing a movement through visual metaphtonymy
In 2022, a protest movement in Iran was triggered by the death of a woman who had been arrested for not covering her hair in the way required by the government. The movement spread but was then squashed. Media coverage was intense and showed many images employing visual metaphors and metonymies, often in combination. While there are now many studies analyzing multimodal metaphors in political contexts, no study has, yet, dealt with the metaphors …
Unravelling Possible Worlds in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Examining Rhetorical Devices
Recently, considerable literature has grown up around the theme of possible worlds as a new way of understanding literary texts. The main thrust of Possible Worlds Theory lies within the world-creating power of the reader’s imagination. Despite a considerable amount of literature on Possible Worlds Theory, investigating the consistent correlation between this theory and rhetorical devices such as intertextuality and metaphor still seems a product…
Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of Covid-19: A multilevel analysis
So far, cognitive linguistics studies on COVID-19 have focused mainly on conceptual metaphors, paying scant attention to other construal operations such as force dynamics (FD). Adopting Kövecses’s (2020, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio ) hybrid account of conceptual metaphor and FD, this study attempts to outline an enriched cognitive view of the figurative conceptualization of illness. It also aims to answer the question: Can FD and…
Covid-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages
This article investigates conceptual metaphors for Covid-19 in two languages, American English and Persian, using two approaches, namely Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory and Kövecses’s approach to universal metaphors. The data for the analysis were drawn from a large corpus of Covid-19 metaphors in American English and a smaller corpus extracted from major news websites in Persian. The analysis focuses on examining the source domains…
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Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of Covid-19: A multilevel analysis
So far, cognitive linguistics studies on COVID-19 have focused mainly on conceptual metaphors, paying scant attention to other construal operations such as force dynamics (FD). Adopting Kövecses’s (2020, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio ) hybrid account of conceptual metaphor and FD, this study attempts to outline an enriched cognitive view of the figurative conceptualization of illness. It also aims to answer the question: Can FD and…
Covid-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages
This article investigates conceptual metaphors for Covid-19 in two languages, American English and Persian, using two approaches, namely Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory and Kövecses’s approach to universal metaphors. The data for the analysis were drawn from a large corpus of Covid-19 metaphors in American English and a smaller corpus extracted from major news websites in Persian. The analysis focuses on examining the source domains…
Unravelling Possible Worlds in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Examining Rhetorical Devices
Recently, considerable literature has grown up around the theme of possible worlds as a new way of understanding literary texts. The main thrust of Possible Worlds Theory lies within the world-creating power of the reader’s imagination. Despite a considerable amount of literature on Possible Worlds Theory, investigating the consistent correlation between this theory and rhetorical devices such as intertextuality and metaphor still seems a product…
Hair or fist: Framing a movement through visual metaphtonymy
In 2022, a protest movement in Iran was triggered by the death of a woman who had been arrested for not covering her hair in the way required by the government. The movement spread but was then squashed. Media coverage was intense and showed many images employing visual metaphors and metonymies, often in combination. While there are now many studies analyzing multimodal metaphors in political contexts, no study has, yet, dealt with the metaphors …
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Metaphor (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Conceptual metaphor (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Cognition (1 works) · Cognitive linguistics (1 works)