ُShayesteh Sadat Mousavi; Pariya shateriyan
Abstract
Metamorphism of mega-metaphors signifies the historical ruptures. The political and social concepts expose themselves in new configuration and evolve in companion with the historical ...
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Metamorphism of mega-metaphors signifies the historical ruptures. The political and social concepts expose themselves in new configuration and evolve in companion with the historical transformations. Conceptual History or The History of Concepts is from new disciplines of History studies which surveys these conceptual evolutions. Conceptual History is a proper framework to observe the articulation of social- cultural concepts. This discipline shows how the concepts transform through the threshold eras (Sattelzeit) and transfer toward the future. Nevertheless, neglect of apparently non-political traits such as allegories, metaphors, myths, etc. could be regarded as one of the biggest deficiencies of this scope. In this paper, which is based on the Conceptual History Project of Reinhart Koselleck, we will observe the role of allegories and metaphors in conceptualization of the words and how they make the words enter the modern era loaded by a new conceptual connotation. Homeland, as one of the greatest keywords of the modern era, has been the focus point of this research. This word, along with a large number of other words, assume a new conceptual connotation in the constitutional era - which must be regarded as one of the main threshold eras of Iran's history-. As we will see, grafting to the concepts like woman, mother, home, etc. homeland breaks out of the lexical mold and evolves into a modern concept.
