Beyond Convergence: A Corpus-Linguistic Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Angels and the Devil in the Quran, Bible, and Tanakh
This paper will give a corpus-linguistic conceptual metaphor of angels and the Devil in three major monotheistic scriptures the Quran, the Bible, and the Tanakh. The study is based on the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and extended by the theory of deliberate metaphor (DMT) of Steen et al...