Document Type : Original

Authors

• babak moradi ¹
• Ahmad Omidali ²
• aboifazl sajady ¹
• ibrahim anari ¹

¹ arak

² arak university

Abstract

The growing expansion of semantics in the contemporary era has led to a close examination of various expressive and stylistic forms found in religious and literary works, revealing their subtleties. The relationship between form and meaning is one of the significant issues addressed within the framework of semantics, demonstrating that neither exists independently of the other. Within this theoretical context, the Conceptual Blending theory, proposed by Fauconnier and Turner in 1993, deals with the interaction of different meanings through integrative and combinatory structures, illustrating how a new meaning emerges through the blending process. In this theory, mental meanings are conceptualized, resulting in a novel, emergent meaning derived from integration. This study, employing a descriptive-analytical method, investigates the verses of the twenty-first chapter (Juz') of the Holy Quran, which encompasses a wide range of religious concepts and addresses topics such as the afterlife, the fates of sinners and the righteous, and various human conditions. The findings indicate that conceptual blending is utilized to express mental notions such as descriptions of human characteristics, human relationships, seemingly extraordinary events, and religious concepts such as resurrection (Ma'ad), jihad, and others. Furthermore, the frequency of conceptual networks in these verses primarily includes single-scope and double-scope networks.

Keywords

• Holy Quran
• Conceptual Blending
• Twenty-first Juz'؛
• Input
• Framing

Main Subjects

• Semantics