زهره ملاکی

According to contemporary metaphorical theory, metaphors are not especially for literary language, but they have an important position in people’s daily language. Language speakers of a particular region get adapted to phenomena which represent that region. They use these phenomena in order to create their world and comprehend its metaphors. This paper studies conceptual metaphors in the story “Yazle Dar Ghobar” from a cognitive point of view using particularly Lakoff’s metaphorical theory. The main question of the paper is how south and its environment have led the writer to create special cognitive metaphors in order that he finds his own style of writing? Analyzing the collected date tells us that the writer has created an active atmosphere with the help of metaphors which ar produced from special regional phenomena. These metaphors have made a distinction between the story and a story written in a region where there is jungle and the sea. The meaningful frequency of ontological metaphors, structural metaphors and directional metaphors has cleared this nativist writer. It makes the story have identity so the reader can sympathize with it and the writer finds his special language and style of writing