Abstract
Nowadays
there are a lot of multidirectional research about metaphors. There are many theoretical researches such as what is
metaphor, metaphorization process of a concept, the process and stages of
metaphor production of mind and categorization of concepts and these researches
are continuing. In addition to these theoretical studies, there are
also applied studies and metaphors are analyzed in these researches. The reason of this study is in applied studies on the
"söz" metaphors is not found yet in Turkish. In this study, the words "söz, laf, lakırdı"
used in Turkish idioms were accepted as signs of the "söz" metaphor
in the language. The aim of this study is to try to explain which
images the "söz" concept has and how it has been metaphorised. The database of this study is compiled from consists
of idioms with the word "söz, laf, lakırdı" in Omer Asim Aksoy's Atasözleri ve Deyimler Sözlüğü. The theoretical basis of the study was established by
using Zaltman-Zaltman (2017). The
compiled idioms were evaluated in the context of "surface metaphors"
and "deep metaphors". As a
result of the study was found that "söz" concept, as deep metaphors,
has KONTROL image at most and BALANCE image at least.