Özet:

Up to now all studies on metaphors have focused on the source domain of many concepts such as time, thought, love, fear, etc. pointing at space as the ultimate source area. But nobody so far has tried to investigate the notion of space as a target domain and ask a question what might be the source field of space. The world is full of objects which has different shapes and sizes on space. Most of metaphors used in English language are set on individuals’ visual knowledge with these things. Metaphors are widely used in English as many other languages. We formed a wide difference of metaphors which are based on the simplest of figures. The aim of this research is to investigate metaphors of space in geometric form in English language. It is concluded that metaphors occupied an ultimately important place in English language so that new researches should be done in further studies. Addition to this, we concluded that physical objects that are the only entities accessible to our senses and it is the physical object that is the ultimate source domain of space, time and other concepts. The development of notional meanings of words and phrases in English language which are parallel the physical view is interesting. We investigated expressions such as point, cross, square etc. in English. 

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