Towards a New approach to Teaching Metaphor Based on the Book “Metaphors We Live By” By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Abstract
This study aimed to illustrate how to exploit George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s concepts presented in their book “Metaphors We Live By” to teach metaphors to second-year baccalaureate educators in the Humanities department in Morocco. Their perspective on metaphor extends beyond considering it just a literary device to accepting it as a crucial need in all aspects of life that is connected to our everyday thoughts that control human behavior.
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3. Al-Wad, Hussein (1984): In Literary Studies Curricula, 1st edition, Casablanca: Benishra Foundation for Printing and Publishing.
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6. Ibn Faris, (1997): Al-Sahabi in the Jurisprudence of Language, its Issues, and the Traditions of Arabs in their Speech, 1st edition, Beirut: Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyah.
7. Lakoff, George (2005): Metaphors That Kill and the Gulf War, translated by: Jihfa, Abdul-Majid, 1st edition, Rabat: Toubkal Publishing.
8. Lakoff, George; Johnson, Mark (1996): Metaphors We Live By, translated by: Jihfa, Abdul-Majid, 1st edition, Rabat: Toubkal Publishing.
9. Muhammad, Bazi (2015): Pages of Creation: A Comprehensive Guide for Arabic Language Teachers and its Literature, Theoretical and Practical, 1st edition, Rabat: Dar Al-Aman.
10. Said Abdul Aal, Abdul-Munim (1993): Methods of Teaching Arabic Rhetoric, 1st edition, Cairo: Dar Gharib for Printing and Publishing.
11. Saleem, Abdul-Ilah (2001): The Structures of Similarity in the Arabic Language: A Cognitive Approach, 1st edition, Rabat: Toubkal Publishing.
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“Towards a New approach to Teaching Metaphor Based on the Book ‘Metaphors We Live By’ By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson”, Soc. sci. humanities j., vol. 9, no. 03, pp. 7328–7338, Mar. 2025, doi: 10.18535/sshj.v9i03.1735.
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