Abstract
Metaphor is one of interesting objects to be research for its rich cognition and use. This study aims at investigating the conceptualization of heart metaphors and to describe the image schemas of heart metaphors. The data of the study were collected from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) which provides significant data relevant to the study. This is a literature study using a qualitative descriptive study through the framework of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) proposed by Lakoff and Johnson. After the selection of metaphorical expressions of heart, the analysis was conducted to categorize the conceptual metaphor of each selected data. The image schemas were then drawn in accordance to the concept given. The study found that people mainly use metaphors to state these three types of concepts of heart metaphors, they are; HEART IS A CONTAINER, HEART IS AN OBJECT, and HEART IS HUMAN/BEING. These main concepts were then elaborated into several smaller categorizations. There are three image schemas drawn in accordance to the types of the conceptual metaphors like containment schema, compulsion schema, and removal of restraint schema. Then, image schemas are helpful to draw the mapping of abstract thing of target domain into more concrete thing of target domain.
Highlights
Heart becomes one of human’s body organs that has very significant functions
72 this study aims to investigate how heart is used metaphorically, how heart is conceptualized and schematized in Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) 73using cognitive semantic approach
The data were obtained from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which is scoped to heart metaphor
Summary
Heart becomes one of human’s body organs that has very significant functions. Doueihi (1997: 17) in Zhou and Jiang (2020) stated that “the heart is central to our life because it is simultaneously “the organ and symbol of the most basic and yet crucial manifestations of life”. Heart is defined as an organ functioning to pump blood to the entire body through blood vessel of the circulatory system (Lewis T, 2021). Doueihi (1997: 17) in Zhou and Jiang (2020) stated that “the heart is central to our life because it is simultaneously “the organ and symbol of the most basic and yet crucial manifestations of life”69 This supports the significant functions of heart in human’s life. J.,et al (2005) advised that ‘heart should be considered as self-regulating functional system, which is greater than the sum of its constitutive parts’. 70
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