10.26180/5d5207e659218 MEHRI MOHAMMAD-BAGHERI MEHRI MOHAMMAD-BAGHERI Conceptualizations of Sadness in Persian Monash University 2019 Cultural conceptualizations schemas categories emotion sadness cultural linguistics metaphors Linguistics 2019-08-13 00:44:20 Thesis https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Conceptualizations_of_Sadness_in_Persian/9561533 The purpose of this study was to investigate the social and cultural norms of expressing sadness in Persian by exploring the cultural categories, metaphors, and schemas (or collectively described as cultural conceptualizations) associated with sadness, and reflected in the language. Besides, the act of responding to the expression of sadness (verbal sympathizing) as another norm-based behavior was analyzed in terms of the cultural schemas underlying it. To this aim, the theoretical and analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics together with the insights from the field of Pragmatic Act Theory (PAT) were adopted.