The nature of cognitive approaches to the issue of language and literature has changed from the
last two decades and our authors have assigned a different function to metaphor, according to
which, metaphor is no longer a literary craft or a form of imagination, but an active process in
the human cognitive system. The importance of metaphor is no longer dependent on the use
of words, phrases or sentences; Rather, each metaphor creates a cultural model in the mind, on
which the behavioral chain is designed. According to this point of view, cognitive or conceptual
metaphor is made based on the human need to understand and represent phenomena and by
relying on the construction of previous words and information, and plays an important role in
the process of thinking. Therefore, defining, extracting and examining these types of metaphors
from any text makes our perception of the speaker's mental world more accurate and deep. In
this research, the author has investigated the conceptual metaphors in the narratives of women
writers about the holy defense (a case study of the books of Nooruddin Son of Iran, Lashkar
Khoban, Da, Dokhtar Shina) in the descriptive-analytical method and library method. The results
of the research show that in the works of sacred defense, a variety of conceptual metaphors with
specific areas of origin and maps are used, which characterizes the power of imagination and the
quality of mental thinking of the authors of such works. Also, the author tries to answer these
questions: how can the difference between women's conceptualizations of war be investigated in
the form of conceptual metaphor theory and schemas? And what areas of origin have been used
in the formation of conceptual metaphors in women's narratives.
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