The major aim of this study was to explore how the body parts play roles in Persian political texts as metaphorical expressions according to cognitive point of view. Due to this fact, by examining a number of contemporary political expressions, the accumulated data were attributed into different body members including: dast (hand), cheshm (eye), sar (head), pā(foot), ru (face), dahān (mouth), del (stomach, heart), shāne (shoulder), angosht (finger), zabān (tongue), dandān (tooth), gush (ear), sine (breast), ghalb (heart) and gardan (neck). Based on the findings, there are fifteen body members by applying which the political metaphors are conceptualized and reflected in Persian political discourse. Furthermore, the results obtained from the current study revealed that among the human body members which are conceptualized in Persian political texts, \\\\\\\"head\\\\\\\" is the most frequent one.

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