Conceptualization of Sar (Head) in Persian figurative expressions

What is it about?

This paper examines the conceptualization of body part ‘head’ in Persian figurative expressions and demonstrates how sar, the Persian equivalent to ‘head’, is conceptualized to convey various notions such as mental activity, emotions, personality traits, social behavior and state, time, place, death, measurement, leader, and success.

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Why is it important?

The conceptualization of body parts in a language can be bounded to that language and often rooted in some cultural background this topic has received scant attention among scholars of Persian language. Apparently, no comprehensive studies on the conceptualization of head in Persian figurative expressions have been conducted so far, thus this research is an attempt to fill this gap.