This article investigates the theoretical and empirical advantages of the intersection of cognitive linguistics and paremiology and aims to examine how to apply the concepts and theories of cognitive linguistics to the interpretation and understanding of proverbs in various languages such as (Persian, English, French, Croatian and Arabic), whereas previous research have mainly focused on conceptual metaphors, metonymies and schemas. Thus an important question raises here when focusing on the encounter between cognitive linguistics and paremiology: is it possible to consider the universal and cognitive principles for the interpretation of the proverb and take into account the proverbial concepts in all languages in the global sense? Or shoul

It's a long time that teaching Persian to foreigners has established its status as a technical major among other academic fields and in this regard various educational sources have been compiled and developed and Persian teachers apply new principles and methods of foreign language teaching in their classrooms. Meanwhile, findings of linguistics have undoubtedly had a significant influence on the development of teaching methods. One of the new linguistic approaches is cognitive approach. This article tries to examine the use of one of linguistic theories, ie mental spaces, in teaching Persian subjunctive mood. Foreign students of Shahed University were chosen in order to explore the effect of this concept on the learning and correct applica