International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) Vol. 20, No. 2, 2020 115 A Cognitive Analysis of Head and Heart Metaphors in English and Spanish https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.20.2.6 Tasneem Al-Saleh; Jihad Al-Shuaibi; Moayad Sharab and Renad Al Momani The University of Jordan, Jordan Abstract: This study investigates the use and the conceptualization of head and heart metaphors in English and Spanish. It studies 57 heart and head English metaphorical expressions and their equivalents in Spanish. This study mainly aims at exploring the similarities and differences between the two languages with regard to the conceptual metaphors from which the metaphorical expressions are generated and the ways of conceptualizing these metaphorical expressions. The study also investigates the role of the human body-experiences in forming and conceptualizing these body-based metaphorical expressions. The results show that the conceptualization and the manifestation of the investigated metaphorical expressions differ in terms of the linguistic expressions used and the conceptual metaphors from which they generate. The results also show that despite the differences that occur, there is still a common way of conceptualizing the bodily-based human experiences through metaphor. Keywords: conceptual metaphors, Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), head, heart, metaphor 1. Introduction Metaphor as a linguistic phenomenon has been extensively studied from different perspectives and in different disciplines such as rhetoric (Kelle, 2005), literature (Hawkes, 2017), and philosophy (Cazeaux, 2007), etc. Many linguists and discourse analysts have investigated metaphor as a linguistic tool and its different types, functions, and connotations that are clearly used in a plethora of discourses. In addition to the abovementioned realms that present metaphor from their perspectives, metaphor has also been investigated from sociolinguistic and cultural perspectives (e.g., Kövecses, 2005), and psycholinguistics (e.g. Paivio and Walsh, 1993). Other scholars such as Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Gibbs and Raymond (2006) have investigated metaphor from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Traditionally, metaphor has always been considered one of the most important rhetorical devices that enriches and ornaments the language of literature. It is viewed as an extraordinary language rather than being an ordinary one. This traditional perspective as presented by Aristotle minimizes the role of metaphor as being a pervasive tool that is used unconsciously in our everyday life (Lakoff and Johnson, 1999:90). Lakoff and Johnson (1980:3) describe metaphor as a ubiquitous concept