CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF EMOTIONAL METAPHORS IN “O‘TKAN KUNLAR” ( BYGONE DAYS)
Keywords:
emotional metaphors; conceptual metaphor; corpus linguistics; literary corpus; concordance analysis; source domain; target domain; Uzbek literary language.Abstract
This study examines the metaphorical representation of emotional states in Abdulla Qodiriy’s novel “O‘tkan Kunlar” (Bygone Days) through a corpus-based approach. The research focuses on the ways in which emotions such as love, longing, sadness, anxiety, fear, anger, hope, and despair are conceptualized through concrete experiential domains. A literary corpus of the novel is used to identify metaphorical expressions and analyze their frequency, contextual distribution, collocational patterns, and semantic functions. The study applies qualitative contextual analysis together with corpus-based procedures, including concordance analysis and the classification of metaphorical expressions according to source and target domains. Particular attention is given to metaphors based on fire, the heart, the soul, light, darkness, weight, movement, and bodily experience. The analysis is expected to demonstrate that emotional states in “O‘tkan Kunlar” are not expressed only through direct emotion words but also through systematic metaphorical models. These metaphors contribute to the representation of characters’ psychological experiences, intensify the emotional atmosphere of the novel, and reveal culturally specific patterns of Uzbek literary expression. The study also shows the value of corpus methods for combining quantitative evidence with detailed literary and semantic interpretation.
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