Structures of the transmitted metaphor in the light of the transformational generative theory

This research deals with the subject of synecdoche according to the theory of transformational generative grammar. The research included quite a few examples of transmitted metaphor through analysis and study. The transformational generative grammar theory is one of the most important modern linguistic theories that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century because of its ability to explain many linguistic phenomena that previous theories failed to explain. The research studies the transmitted metaphor in the light of the most important assumptions of transformative generative grammar, which is the hypothesis of the deep structure, the structure and the surface, which sees that every superficial structure has a phenomenon with a deep mental structure. The research confirmed the link between the Arabic linguistic heritage and modern linguistic theories, especially the transformational generative theory, and that the Arab rhetoricians did not understand while analyzing the Arabic rhetorical examples the issue of the surface structure and the deep structure. We divided the research into two parts. In the first part, we dealt with the metaphor transmitted, its definition, and its relations. In the second part, we dealt with the application of the transformational generative theory on examples of examples of Arabic rhetoric. The research reached the possibility of applying the transformational generative theory to the Arabic language, especially to the Arabic rhetoric.