A semiotic analysis of images of Saudi Women's rights in caricatures in light of Saudi Women's empowerment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4830907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naimah Ahmed Al-Ghamdi (Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University , Dammam , Saudi Arabia), Naimah Al-Ghamdi (0000-0002-8851-0456, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University), Abeer Alqahtani (Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University , Dammam , Saudi Arabia), Lama Alshahrani (Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University , Dammam , Saudi Arabia), Tariq Elyas (0000-0002-2898-7391, King Abdulaziz University , Jeddah , Saudi Arabia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue | 249 |
| Pages | 217-247 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2021-0091 |
| OpenAlex | W4283692526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
Many caricaturists get the idea for their caricature from current issues of society. The philosophy of the caricature lies in the opinion it presents, which discusses society's goals, culture, and crises, and it is represented in an ironic way to deliver its visual message. The fight for women's rights, inequality, and discrimination are examples of issues concerning Saudi women that have been represented by several caricaturists. Hence, the aim of this paper is to investigate female and male caricaturists' linguistic and semiotic representation of Saudi women's challenging issues. Following (Kress and Van Leeuwen. 2006.Reading images: The grammar of visual design, 2nd edn. London: Routledge), a social semiotic multimodal approach to the analysis is adopted in this study, which is drawn from Halliday's social semiotic theory. Twenty caricatures were carefully selected based on the content and the issues that are being discussed in the caricatures with a consideration of their relation to the aim of the study. The present study contributes to enriching Saudi women's rights in relation to Saudi Vision 2030. The research is significant in that, in examining women/male caricaturists' representations of the challenges and opportunities of Saudi women empowerment prior/after Saudi Vision 2030 in the workplace, social life, it contributes to understanding the supportive caricature discourse, basic social values for Saudi women, the pressures they undergo, and the success they have achieved so far in attaining their rights. The study findings show that both the semiotic and verbal elements of the caricatures were significant in delivering the messages for women's rights in the new Saudi
Aesthetics · Art · Empowerment · Linguistics · Political science · Reading (process) · Relation (database) · Representation (politics) · Semiotics · Social semiotics · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in MENA
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |