Conceptual Metaphors Determine Women Writers’ Thought from Iraq
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Metaphor, Arab women writers thought,, CMT, social forcesAbstract
The recent study investigates conceptual metaphors (CMs) and raises a series of questions relevant to the study of literary texts by contemporary Arab women writers from Iraq; What do the CMs identified in such texts tell us about women’s thought? Do such CMs structure Iraqi Arab woman’s thought? What is there beyond thought? How do socio-cultural forces determine it? The following sections are attempts to argue these questions by emprical analysis which focused on writings by three well-known contemporary writers from Iraq. Five short stories from Iraq (“The Cat, the Maid, and the Wife,” “The Future,” and “The Newcomer” by Daisy al- Amir, “The Dream” by Aliya Mamdouh, and “At the Beach” by Buthayna al-Nasiri).
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