From the very beginning, conceptual metaphor has been one of the interest areas in Cognitive linguistics and an integral part of cognitive linguistics theory. Among other things, this linguistic approach deals with the motivation of conceptual metaphors, their cultural specificity, conventionality, and the question of whether it is a well-established structure of knowledge or a process. Metaphor is not just a rhetorical device, but something we use in everyday communication, and after a brief overview of the
Conceptual Theory of Metaphor through the metaphor DISEASE IS WAR, specific examples from the English and B/H/S language extracted from the Google browser will be analyzed.
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