فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

One of the emerging topics in Qur'anic studies is the discussion of methods of conceptualizing human feelings and emotions in the Holy Qur'an, to explain some aspects of the semantic network of this Book. In this regard, the main issue of this article is how the Holy Qur'an conceptualized the mental and abstract concept of "fear" as one of the most important human emotions. To answer this question, the studies of the semantics of emotions as a field in cognitive semantics have been used. These studies prove that conceptualizing "fear" as "trembling" based upon metonymy is one of the most common methods of conceptualizing fear in different languages. Therefore, the etymology of Qur'anic words related to the semantic field of "fear" is investigated to find out how much this method of conceptualization is taken into consideration by the Holy Qur'an. This study indicates that about half of Qur'anic words related to the semantic field of "fear" are conceptualized as trembling, including Zilzāl, Ruhb, Ru'b, Raw', Faza', and Faraq.