Abstract:

Cognitive linguistics, unlike the other fields of linguistics, is a interdisciplinary fieldwhich puts human and human perception in the center. Considering human andhuman body as a whole in human perception and describing the importance of thehuman body in the formation of linguistic perception have increased rapidly especially with cognitive linguistics. In this study, Japanese and Turkish idioms are compared including body parts ofhara and karın conceptually and semantically. With this comparison, perceptualsimilarities and differences in both languages have been revealed. As a result, considering in terms of meanings, it is understood that hara and karınrefer to the same part of body and semantic frameworks of this words are quiteclose to each other except for a few differences. However cosidering the idiomsincluding this words, it is identified that both languages have just a few phraseswith the same meaning. The result of this study, it is found that hara has a widerand deeper conceptual framework

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