Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• ُShayesteh Sadat Mousavi ¹
• Pariya shateriyan ²

¹ faculty member

² master graduated in Persian literature and language

Abstract

The significance of the mega metaphors' metamorphosis in the History of Concepts

(with a focus on the conceptual transformation of the word "homeland")

،The metamorphism of the mega-metaphors functions as a main indication of 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 one of the new disciplines of History studies which surveys the conceptual evolutions through the time. Conceptual History is a proper framework to observe the articulation of social and cultural concepts through the time. This discipline shows how the concepts transform through the threshold eras (known as "Sattelzeit" in German terminology) and how thay subsequently transfer toward the future within a new conceptual form. 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 reach to the modern era loaded by a new conceptual connotation. Homeland, as one of the greatest keywords of the modern era, has appropriate the focus point of this research. This word, along with a large number of other words, has been loaded by a new conceptual connotation in the constitutional era of Iran - which must be regarded as one of the main threshold eras of Iran's history-. As we will see, by grafting to the main concepts like woman, mother, home, etc.the word "homeland" breaks out of its lexical mold and evolves into a modern concept. keywords: The history of concepts or the conceptual history, threshold era (Sattelzeit), mega metaphors, constitutional era, homeland

Keywords

• History of Concepts/Conceptual History
• threshold era
• mega-metaphors
• constitutional era
• homeland

Main Subjects

• Persian the literature