TY - JOUR N2 - By conducting an examination of the mapping process in metaphor comprehension, this article suggests that a set of superficially different metaphors can be considered to be isomorphic to an underlying generic metaphor. In other words, a set of seemingly different metaphors with different domains can be categorized under a single generic metaphor. The generic metaphor is in the general form of X is in some kind of semantic relationship with Y. When this generic metaphor is realized in specific-level forms, a number of metaphors are produced which are isomorphic to each other, although their domains could be completely different in appearance. In other words, there is a deep homogeneity among a set of concretely different metaphors. A generic metaphor can be seen as a semantic frame for all specific metaphors that are isomorphic to it. Since base and target domains of a given metaphor can be very different in terms of concrete features, the mapping of the base into the target must be mediated by the domain of its underlying generic metaphor. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/123355/PDF/2022-02-PPB-01-Khatin-Zadeh.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/123355 PY - 2022 IS - No 2 EP - 65 DO - 10.24425/ppb.2022.141133 KW - Mapping KW - Metaphor comprehension KW - Generic metaphor KW - Isomorphic KW - Base domain KW - Target domain A1 - Khatin-Zadeh, Omid A1 - Banaruee, Hassan A1 - Yazdani-Fazlabadi, Babak PB - Committee for Psychological Science PAS VL - vol. 53 DA - 2022.06.08 T1 - A cognitive perspective on basic generic metaphors and their specific-level realizations SP - 60 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/123355 T2 - Polish Psychological Bulletin ER -