A Psycholinguistic Analysis of John Nash’s Hallucinations as Represented in the Film “A Beautiful Mind” (Published)
The film A Beautiful Mind explores hallucination in this study. A Beautiful Mind depicts the tale of John Nash, a university student who dislikes studying in class or prefers to study alone. Throughout his life, John Nash has hallucinated or what is known as schizophrenia, as depicted in the film A Beautiful Mind. The goal of this study was to figure out what hallucinations were, what caused them, and how John Nash managed his hallucinations. In general, this study examines the link between language and mind, or the linguistic relationship portrayed in John Nash’s character’s speech, as evidenced by his conduct. This study takes a psycholinguistic approach to data analysis by employing qualitative methodologies. Data sources include talks and scenes from the film A Beautiful Mind. Hearing, seeing, and feeling are the scientific results of John Nash’s hallucinations in the film A Beautiful Mind. Second, dreams, aspirations, and sickness are the sources of John Nash’s hallucinations. Third, John Nash’s method of managing hallucinations is to see a doctor without medical or distracting assistance.
Shafarini R. (2022) A Psycholinguistic Analysis of John Nash’s Hallucinations as Represented in the Film “A Beautiful Mind, International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research, Vol.10, No 5, pp.40-54
Keywords: John Nash, a beautiful mind, hallucination, psycholinguistic
Language as the Device for Psychological Manipulation in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Psycholinguistic Analysis (Published)
Language is the unique human talent that works amazingly in molding one’s thoughts and deeds. If grown unrestricted, it can help people widen their notions about things and issues in and around them. On the other hand, if shrunk and chained, it hinders the flourishing of ideas and information. The blossoming as well as the limiting power of language has been very perspicuously illustrated by George Orwell in his dystopian novel, 1984. How linguistic constituents hold the absolute ability to do and undo human thoughts has been portrayed in the novel in the most striking manner. Orwell has shown how language can manipulate psychological functions supreme-handedly. To lead popular thought to a certain target, language has to be engineered in the required mechanism. It does so, and attains complete control over people’s mind. This paper examines how language sets a demarcation line for human psychological processes. It attempts to dig deep into the linguistic treatment in 1984 and comes up with a vivid description of the dominance of language on people’s mental procedure. It investigates the manipulations of the ‘Newspeak’ and strives to grasp a psycholinguistic analysis of the novel.
Keywords: Language, Manipulation, Nineteen Eighty Four, Psychology, psycholinguistic
