A Comprehensive Analysis of Visualizing Metaphors: Linguistic Decoding of Meaning in the Movie The Donkey King

Abstract

The present research looks into the Conceptual Metaphors from the movie The Donkey King. It aims to recognize metaphors from the movie to reveal their hidden meaning and comprehend how the movie’s language is used to construct ideologies. It deals with the linguistic and visual analysis of the metaphors from the film in which the role of language is pivotal in constructing ideologies. The current study employed the theoretical framework of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory of Johnson and Lakoff (1980). The study's findings disclosed that 5 major metaphors are identified from the selected parts of the movie. It also deals with ideology construction through the language used in the movie i.e. the quality of narcissism depiction through language, and the image of unity through the usage of words in the movie. The study shows that language is the main element in movie through which are identified and ideology is constructed through language in the movie The Donkey King.