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Studying Political Caricatures from a Pragmatic Perspective

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Expressing one's opinion is not limited to the written form only. It could be in a form of an illustration or a caricature using a sarcastic image to express an opinion. These caricatures could be political, and the main purpose of a political caricature is to criticize a certain political situation in a sarcastic way. This paper aims at analysing four different caricatures from different online newspapers which are The Guardian, The New York Times, The Arab Weekly, and The Week. These caricatures describe and present the same situation in Gaza a decade ago from 2014 till 2023. The analysis is done from a pragmatic perspective through Speech Acts Theory, Gricean maxims, irony, and rhetorical devices along with the features of political caricatures. The findings show that the caricatures under study are composed of a variety of direct and indirect speech acts implying death, hunger, revenge, violence, and others. In addition, they show the impact of flouting the maxims of quality and quantity on expressing the message behind each caricature. Moreover, the use of exaggeration and analogy plays a significant role in understanding the cartoonists' opinions along with irony as well. In the end, the cartoonists succeed in convincing their audiences using ethos, pathos, and logos.

DOI

10.21608/tjhss.2024.297776.1251

Keywords

Aristotelian Appeals, Grice’s maxims, Political Caricatures, pragmatics, Speech acts theory

Authors

First Name

Sarah

Last Name

Abouelenine

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Affiliation

English, Applied Languages, Université française D’ Égypte, Cairo, Egypt

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sara.abuelenine81@gmail.com

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0000-0001-5550-5493

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5

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4

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50949

Issue Date

2024-10-01

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2024-06-15

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2024-10-01

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28

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40

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2636-4239

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2636-4247

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Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Studying Political Caricatures from a Pragmatic Perspective

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25 Dec 2024