Survey of the use of conceptual metaphor theory in determining women's writing style

Conceptual metaphor theory was an important issue in many areas of the humanities, such as cognitive linguistics, semantics, psychology, analytical philosophy and so on.

According to this theory the human mind is inherently understand and states abstract concepts and experiences intangible in terms of metaphors..

We often think in terms of specific metaphors and even decide,study of conceptual metaphors at different times and in different generations can effectively determine the cognitive patterns.The present study examines a variety of conceptual metaphors in four novels “Savušun ", "my bird", "corridors of Heaven" and "I wish I was Roses"With the goal to achieve the mental patterns women writers and their cognitive style.The research is based on qualitative content analysis approach, so that first metaphorical statements mentioned in novels extracted and then classified and analyzed.

In this study, all three types of metaphor direction, structural and ontological and structural metaphor has the highest frequency.

The concepts of "time", "man", "Life", "Nature", "heart". The most frequency in this novel are the concepts of "relationship", "love", "objecttion," "sad," "disease," "nostalgia", "happiness" of the key concepts and style to the authors.

In statements obtained from the novels explored areas of common origin are: man, machine, track, buildings, birds, product, mountains, sea, container, objects, knitting, food and glue.Data analysis shows that metaphors drawn from the novels studied these writers, in most cases, by the thought of their female identity.