Grasping political cartoons? Not an easy matter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13079311 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dafina Genova (0000-0002-8082-9024, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-99 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Humour Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2307-700X • E-ISSN: 2307-700X |
| Publisher | Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.7592/ejhr2018.6.1.genova |
| OpenAlex | W2809583499 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 19 |
The article focuses on the interpretation of political cartoons and the means of expression a cartoonist uses to convey a message: visual metaphors, visual metonymies as well as metaphors inferred from the image and/or text. The metaphors and visual metonymies in the cartoons are analyzed from the point of view of Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy Theory. In the analysis, visual and inferential metaphors are viewed as incongruities; there are also incongruities as a result of the interaction between image, title and/or caption. Political cartoons can have more than one focal (visual) incongruity that enables the introduction of a Logical Mechanism from the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) to (partially) resolve the incongruity/ies. Visual metonymies and images can also function as enablers of a Logical Mechanism. Image and/or text can contrast with or reinforce a Logical Mechanism. Additionally, visual metaphors and metonymies function as contextualization indexes in the interpretation of the cartoons. Humour is the means to get the cartoonist’s message across to the viewer/reader and not an end in itself
Cartoonist · Cognitive science · Comics · Contextualization · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · Function (biology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Mechanism (biology · Metaphor · Metonymy · Politics · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Metaphor
Humorous Texts
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Obligatory Processing of the Literal Meaning of Ironic Utterances
Reconsidering “Image Metaphor” in the Light of Perceptual Simulation Theory
Obligatory Processing of the Literal Meaning of Ironic Utterances
Metaphoric Thought and Devices in Pictures
Understanding visual metaphor
Script theory revis(it)ed
Script oppositions and logical mechanisms
A personality-based model of humor development during adulthood
The interaction of cartoonist's gender and formal features of cartoons
Resolutions and their incongruities
The semantic foundations of cognitive theories of humor
Finding metaphor in grammar and usage
Language and image interaction in cartoons
Hyperbolic language and its relation to metaphor and irony
The identification of target and source in pictorial metaphors
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1.17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |