Metaphors We Live By Language Analysis

Aristotle in his outstanding works Poetics, proposed the definition of metaphor as, “consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else; the transference being either from genus to species, or from species to genus, or from species to species, or on grounds of analogy” (Lan, 2005). This explanation of metaphor emphasizes on its distinctiveness as being a rhetoric phenomenon or rather a device that is transference from one word to another in enhancing the forcefulness and complexness of the expressions. In simpler words, metaphor is a figure of speech which formulates an implicit or unseen meaning between two objects or things that are poles apart from each other but imposes some universal characteristics between them that are comparable. This essay will scrutinize and analyze the metaphors projected in Disney Movies and how it conveys the implicit meanings or messages through various types of metaphors, focusing on three dissimilar movies which are, ‘Mulan’, ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Frozen’. Transcripts from internet resources are utilized in accomplishing this analysis. According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980), evidenced by their literary work ‘Metaphors We Live By’ there are several different concepts in which metaphors can be classified namely; structural metaphors, conduit metaphors, orientational
Some example of personifications are like; ‘her fingers are dancing as she operates the keyboard’ and ‘this shoe is killing me!’ In both these expressions it is noticeable that objects are portrayed with the traits and personality of a human being. In the first example, ‘finger’ is associated with the act of dancing to denote the swift moving fingers as she controls the keyboard while in the second case in point the object ‘shoe’ is characterized with the word ‘killing’ which indirectly mean it is causing soreness and it