Abstract
TYPOLOGICAL AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF NATURE METAPHORS IN AHMET ALTAN’S NOVEL HAYAT HANIM
Nature metaphors are used as important tools in expressing the inner worlds, emotional states and social events of the characters in the novel and many events in the novels. Knowing the typologies of nature metaphors used in a novel and determining their meaning fields can play a key role in analyzing the semantic universe of the text and concretizing the level of representation of events and facts in human thought. The current study focuses on the typological and semantic analysis of nature metaphors in Ahmet Altan's novel Hayat Hanım. In the study, the place of the concept of metaphor in the human thought system is discussed within the framework of Lakoff and Johnson's "conceptual metaphortheory". In the study, 18 original nature metaphors out of 44 nature metaphors detected in the novel were selected using the Monographic Sampling Method. The identified metaphors were analyzed in terms of typology and semantics. In the example of the novel Hayat Hanım, the role of nature metaphors in increasing the literary depth in literary texts and the functionality of these metaphors in the "special" communication that the author tries to establish with the reader were determined. It is thought that the findings of the study will contribute to the holistic interpretation of the metaphor map in Ahmet Altan's works.
Keywords
Metaphor, nature metaphors, Conceptual Metaphor, typology, semantics