Superhero contra butcher

Zelensky and Putin in political cartoons on Russian aggression

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12700481
AutoresOrest Semotiuk (0000-0002-7922-380X, Institute of Slavic Studies PAS, Warsaw, Poland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas771-789
Fecha de publicación2023-09-11
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVisual Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-3572 • E-ISSN: 1741-3214
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14703572231189753
OpenAlexW4386603730
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas30

This article integrates national and international levels of political humorous discourse and proposes a multimodal analysis of the discursive dimension of the Russian–Ukrainian war and its implementation in political humour. The author analyses the distribution of supportive/subversive humour in world, Ukrainian and Russian political cartoons targeting Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin and representing the conflict parties, with special attention to the presentation/setting. The distribution of supportive vs subversive political humour is based on an analysis of the target, focus and setting of political cartoons depicting Putin and Zelensky, and on the interaction of verbal and nonverbal elements in the cartoons. Political cartoons can be defined by their goals, frames of reference and means. These corresponding parameters (goal–target, frame of reference–focus, means-setting) as well as the correlation between self-image/external image and supportive/subversive political humour provide the analytical framework for the article

Focus (optics · Linguistics · Media studies · Political communication · Political science · Politics · Presentation (obstetrics · Sociology · Ukrainian · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies · Law