Cohesive Ties in some Brexit Cartoons: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis
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The current study tries to tackle some cartoons about Brexit, aiming at analyzing them textually and visually, checking the occurrences of cohesive ties within these cartoons. The study adopts De Beaugrande and Dressler in their book 'Introduction to Text Linguistics' (1981) for textual analysis, and Kress and Van Leeuwen in their book 'Reading Images' (2006) for the visual.The study hypothesizes that cartoons, as any means of communication, utilize linguistic as well as visual elements in order to deliver its messages; and that certain textual relations are used, together with certain visual criteria, can make a given cartoon communicative more than when other relations are used.The data are (6) cartoons selected from different English newspapers, within the years (2006-2009). These cartoons tackle Brexit as a condition for selection. The Study comes up with some conclusions, the hypotheses above are achieved with some other conclusions
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