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Previous literature has focused on the literary and socio-cultural aspects and attributes of Pashto landay, a two line poetic couplet. The available literature shows that linguistic approaches to the study of Pashto language and literature in general and the study of Pashto landay in particular, are minimal. This paper has used conceptual metaphor theory to discover the conceptual metaphors within Pashto landay. Nine hundred and thirty landay taken from Noorzi’s book, “Pukhto landay Misre, tappe” have been analyzed. The analysis revealed eleven conceptual metaphors on the basis of their respective experiential source domains besides the resemblance based metaphors. Four examples of each conceptual metaphor were selected for linguistic analysis. The analysis revealed that experiential gestalts of, for example, a journey, war, fire, disease, containers and objects in space have all been used to conceptualize abstract concepts of love, emotions, time and events in Pashto landay. However, as this paper has analyzed only a small portion of landay, further studies of Pashto landay are needed to discover more conceptual metaphors, which may be helpful in understanding the cognitive schemas used by Pashto speakers for processing abstract concepts.

Sardaraz Khan, Aasia Nusrat. (2020) Cognitive semantic study of Pashto folklore, the Landay, , Volume-14, Issue-2.
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