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in: Exploration of the Intersection of Corpus Linguistics and Language Science, CANGIR HAKAN,UZUN KUTAY,CAN TANER,OĞUZ ENİS, Editor, IGI Global yayınevi, New York, pp.223-252, 2025
Time is understood through multiple metaphorical domains. However, languages are not uniform in their metaphorical conventions, making data-driven studies of understudied languages such as Turkish crucial. To this end, the present corpus-based study examines time metaphors in colloquial and poetic Turkish, extracted from a general-purpose corpus and a poetry corpus, developed as a part of the present study. I systematically classified the time metaphors into eight metaphorical domains and mapped their relationships to each other, and statistically analyzed their dominance based on frequencies along with qualitative interpretations. The results showed that “time is an object” is the most dominant metaphor in colloquial Turkish, while “time is a living organism” is the most dominant metaphor in poetic Turkish. The “organism” domain accounted for the largest difference between the corpora and the metaphoricity of time was stronger in the poetry corpus.