The book is intended for a wide range of readers, particularly students and researchers in the fields of Cultural Linguistics, Semiotics, and Anthropology. Therefore, it could be used as a text or reading for university courses such as Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semiotics, Cultural Studies, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, and Applied Linguistics. It is hoped that the new analytical model presented in this book will lead to further in-depth analyses of linguistic and cultural aspects of life in different communities at the level of cognition.
To spell out the culture-specificity of natural elements used in English and Persian proverbs, this book adopts a hybrid model of Cultural Conceptualizations and Semiotics with the view that the former part of the model stands in need of further explications for culturally-constructed concepts derived from cultural symbols. Accordingly, descriptive, and cognitive data analysis is performed to accomplish the objectives of the study.