Applying and Re-Employing of English Eyes Metaphors to Arabic

Re-employing eyes metaphors is a very difficult task. This is because of its cultural and linguistic features which are unique and cannot be predicted from the individual words. This study focuses on the characteristics of eye expressions in English, the process of interpreting eyes metaphors as well as the methods and approaches to apply these expressions perfectly. However, the result of the study is based on data test (questionnaire) including ten of prominent types of eyes expressions. The subjects of the research are four university teachers who are well-qualified in English and having the experience to apply such type of metaphor into Arabic. Finally, the study finds out that the preferable strategy for re-employing such figures of speech is the metaphoric method, as it takes into consideration the aesthetics values of the source language.