Political Cartoons as a Vehicle of Setting Social Agenda: The Newspaper Example

Sani, Iro; Abdullah, Mohd Firdaus; Abdullah, Faiz Sathi; Ali, Afida Mohamad

doi:10.5539/ass.v8n6p156

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“…Так, например, изучение графических образов кандидатов в предвыборных карикатурах позволяет утверждать, что с помощью изобразительных средств карикатуристы выражают мнение, которое было бы не вполне политкорректным в контексте газетной статьи (Mazid 2008). Сила воздействия карикатуры заключается в том, что знакомая тема преподносится в новом ракурсе, это дает возможность автору убедить аудиторию принять нужную точку зрения (Sani 2012). Юмор, как отмечает В. Раскин, используется в карикатурах в качестве маскировки истинных чувств и убеждений, поскольку если карикатура повторяет открыто сказанное, она теряет свою силу и становится неэффективной.…”

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Pragmatic and stylistic persperctives on British and American COVID-19 cartoons

Pavlina

2022

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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The research aims to compare and contrast British and American visual communication texts which are based on the combination on semiotically diverse modes. Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis the paper explores the way a specific segment of reality - the COVID-19 pandemic - is covered in political cartoons that employ the same language but are grounded in different cultural settings. To this end, a contrastive analysis of editorial cartoons used in British and American mass media was carried out. The sample encompasses 130 British and 130 American graphical texts published in 2020-2021 on the web sites of The Guardian and U.S. News World Report . The article focuses on the way the new meaning is produced due to the interaction of visual and verbal modes using the information shared by members of a specific linguacultural community. At first the pragmatic and functional properties of the sample texts are examined, then the stylistic features of the texts verbal components are studied. Taking a functional perspective, the research reveals the marked differences in two respective samples: the British COVID-19 cartoons criticize the governments policies, whereas the American ones do not only satirize but also acclaim, creating a positive image of those responsible for vaccination production and rolling out. They tend to use slogans to mobilize the public, performing the function typical of political posters. Drawing on the stylistic analysis of linguistic resources, the paper analyzes the differences in registers and rhetorical means used by British and American cartoonists to shape their messages. Both pragmatic aspects of the cartoons and the choice of stylistic devices used in their linguistic elements proved to be culture-specific, despite the similarity of issues the texts address. The research elucidates the way the cultural landscape affects the meaning-building processes in multimodal texts that employ different variants of the same language.

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Pragmatic and stylistic persperctives on British and American COVID-19 cartoons

Pavlina

2022

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…La teoría del establecimiento o fijación de la agenda (agenda setting) proviene de McCombs y Shaw (Sani et al 2012;Piñuel y Gaitán, 2010) y se aplica específicamente a los medios de comunicación de masas y su potencial para representar o describir asuntos de actualidad con el fin de reorientar y configurar la opinión del público frente a los hechos presentados (Sani et al 2012, pág. 158).…”

Section: La Prensa Escrita Y El Establecimiento Del Conflicto Como «Agenda Social»unclassified

Algunos fundamentos para el análisis discursivo y semiótico de las representaciones de los actores del conflicto en la caricatura política en Colombia

Gómez

2013

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En el contexto del conflicto político que vive la nación colombiana desde hace más de cincuenta años se puede corroborar la enorme influencia de la prensa escrita, especialmente en las décadas de los años cuarenta y cincuenta, en la consolidación de representaciones de los avatares del conflicto y, en especial, de sus protagonistas. Si bien dicho fenómeno se ha abordado desde diversas disciplinas, no abundan los estudios sobre el rol desempeñado por el lenguaje o, para ser más precisos, el discurso en tales representaciones. A eso se suma el escaso aprovechamiento de las teorías y métodos útiles para dar cuenta de las formas en que interactúan los variados sistemas semióticos que, en el caso de la gran prensa escrita de la época, constituyen auténticas prácticas discursivas de gran impacto en la sociedad. Dichas prácticas establecieron como agenda social el estado del proceso político al tiempo que actuaron como vehículo privilegiado para la consolidación de representaciones sobre el rival.Este artículo, continuación de un proyecto sobre la imagen como discurso, aborda las complejas interrelaciones entre los textos escritos y los textos visuales, concretamente la caricatura política, un subgénero del dibujo con gran arraigo en la tradición periodística colombiana. Para ello se intentan conciliar nociones provenientes de la semiótica visual y el análisis del discurso (perspectivas críticas y sistémico-funcionales) partiendo de la base de que la coexistencia de este tipo no es meramente casual sino que obedece a un criterio de elaboración de un tipo de discurso multisemiótico, sustentado en la noción de multimodalidad, que garantiza su eficacia.Se espera elaborar un análisis inicial de este tipo de textos constituidos como espacio ideal donde se reflejan y refractan ideologías políticas en un escenario tan complejo como el del conflicto colombiano.

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“…Lawrence H. Streicher’s ‘On a Theory of Political Caricature’ (1967) is arguably the earliest attempt to theorize the elements of political caricaturing. Numerous studies on the structural approach and metaphorical analysis of political cartoons soon followed (Conners, 2005, 2007; Coupe, 1969; El Refaie, 2009; Gamson & Stuart, 1992; Greenberg, 2002; Medhurst & Desousa, 1981; Morris, 1993; Sani et al, 2012). After the Danish Cartoon Crisis, the cartoon has been seen ‘as a visual source that reflects discourse and counter-discourse’ (Khanduri, 2014, p. 14).…”

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(Poli) Tickle/Prickle: Keshav Between the Lines

Venkat

Balakrishnan

2018

Journal of Creative Communications

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This interview with Keshav Venkataraghavan, the staff cartoonist of The Hindu, explores the principles and the profession of political cartooning. Known as Keshav, to his readers, he has been drawing for 30 years and is now the editorial consultant of The Hindu. Beginning as a caricaturist who frequented the Chennai concerts to sketch the classical Carnatic musicians, Keshav has metamorphosed into an artist-cartoonist, effortlessly switching between the austere mind devoted to art’s spirituality and the specular mind which interrogates the socio-political sphere. While Keshav has drawn attention as an artist, his style of cartooning, surprisingly, has not been examined at length. As this is the first time Keshav becomes candid about the ethics, aesthetics and profession of cartooning, the interview demands attention, especially, for an Indian perception of cartooning. The interview attempts to answer the following questions: What decides the rhetoric, ethics and aesthetics of cartooning? Why is humour significant to cartooning? What is its role in making cartoons controversial? And what distinguishes political correctness from political incorrectness? Beginning with a discussion on the intriguing language of cartooning, the interview ponders over the process of choosing ideas and creating visuals for cartooning. This conversation with Keshav helps one to understand the tightrope profession of cartooning, as a thin separation between the scathed and smooth lines that tickle and prickle targets.

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Political Cartoons as a Vehicle of Setting Social Agenda: The Newspaper Example

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

Pragmatic and stylistic persperctives on British and American COVID-19 cartoons

Pragmatic and stylistic persperctives on British and American COVID-19 cartoons

Algunos fundamentos para el análisis discursivo y semiótico de las representaciones de los actores del conflicto en la caricatura política en Colombia

(Poli) Tickle/Prickle: Keshav Between the Lines

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