Analysis of the Train Metaphor in Ana Karenina Novel Based on the Model of Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphors

Subject Areas : Philosophy

Parisa Changizi ¹ , Hoseinali Nozari ²

1 - Philosophy of Art, Divinity, political Science and Law, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Political Science, Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2022-03-07 Accepted : 2022-03-07 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: train metaphor, Anna Karenina, nineteenth century, conceptual metaphors, Lakoff and Johnson,

Abstract :

Philosophers and historians of science believe in a particular metaphor for every century in the history of science. Meanwhile, the nineteenth century is under the metaphor of the train, which is the embodiment of the steam engine. On the other hand, at the same time, the metaphor of the train plays a decisive role in nineteenth-century literature and it becomes one of the factors on which the plot of the story is based. So in the nineteenth century, the metaphor of the train, which is a tangible form of the steam engine for people, spread everywhere and it found a decisive role in the nineteenth-century literature. This metaphor becomes one of the factors on which the plot of the story is based. After introducing the train metaphor as the dominant metaphor in nineteenth-century science and literature, the paper analyzes the metaphor in Anna Karenina's novel by theme analysis strategy and based on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson's conceptual metaphors.