Masharipov jahongir axmedovich conceptual analysis of the components of metaphor with the elements of mentality in english and uzbek

Individual Variation
Do metaphors vary from person to person? We know from everyday 
experience that they do. Since there hasn't been much work done on this issue, I try 
to offer some speculations about how and why individuals differ with respect to the 
metaphors they use.
 
There are several factors in this variation due to mentality of 
course. Occasionally, this phenomenon can be met, let’s see it with examples. 
Imagine two contemporaries: one of them lives in the Jungle, while other lives in 
Iceland. Or suppose two contemporaries living in one habitat, but one of them is 
keen on sports, while the other is a bookworm. Or imagine two people knowing 
each other so many years, working at the same place but are different age. Ro 
suppose two contemporaries living in one street, going to one school, choosing the 
same profession but with different pastimes. Do they always have the same 
mentality? We can continue the list a lot, but we want to make it concise and 
contend that each individual has one unique aspect that the rest don’t have. We do 
not want to say that there is absolute difference, not! Sometimes even if they have 
plenty of differences, there may be universal mentality features. What we are going 
to contend is that each individual is unique feature and that feature enriches the 
word stock and metaphors.
 Human Concern
One source of individual variation seems to be what can be termed human 
concern. We can often observe that people use metaphors that derive from their 
major concerns in life. For example, in listening to doctors talk about 
nonprofessional topics, we notice that they often employ metaphors that come 
from their professional lives. They have certain general concerns and interests 
(their professional activities as doctors), and they will apply these to domains that 
call for source-to-target mappings. What is interesting about this process is that 
expertise of whatever kind may lead to the exploitation of this expert knowledge. 

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At the same time, a negative consequence may be that people who are not doctors 
may not be able to gain much from these metaphors because they do not have the 
necessary expertise to make sense of the doctor's metaphors based on their 
professional activities as a revealing source domain.[21;194]