Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the ways that non-motion events are metaphorically described in terms of motion events in Persian and English. To achieve this objective, a corpus of Persian and English sentences collected from various sources was analysed. Results of this analysis showed that the ways that non-motion events are described in terms of motion events are similar in Persian and English in two respects: firstly, the percentages of expression of each main components of motion events (figure, manner, path, source, goal, ground) were very close to each other in Persian and English; secondly, manner was the most-expressed component in the metaphorical descriptions of non-motion events in terms of motion events. Furthermore, a comparison was made between Persian and English in terms of locus and semantic density in such metaphorical descriptions.

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