تصوير فساد بعض السياسيين العراقيين في الكارتون السياسي : دراسة فكرية سيميائية == Visualizing Some Iraqi Politicians' Corruption in Political Cartoons: A Cognitive - Semiotic Study
Author name:
تيجان وحيد رشيد
Supervisor name:
خالدة الغزي
Specific topic:
English - Language
Degree:
Master
University:
Wasit University - College Of Education For Human Sciences - English Department
Language:
English
University location:
Wasit
Key words:
- Visualizing. political cartoons
- cognitive -semiotic
Abstract:
This study is devoted to investigate political cartoons as one of the effective tools that have
huge messages to visualise, criticise, and expose the corruption of some politicians. This
study also attempts to fill the gap in dealing with political cartoons in Iraq and how these
cartoons have an effect and how to be effective. There is a relationship between eyes and
mind, this study reveals this relation which it is between semiotics and cognitive. This type
of cartoons also have especial ability to make change, they need to be made in reliable. The
study aims at: highlight the important role of political cartoons towards the corruption in
Iraq, identify the cognitive semiotics aspects in political cartoons, clarify the way that
cartoons succeed in providing full understanding of the intended messages, and examine if
political cartoons are taken seriously in Iraq. The analysis of the data follows a CognitiveSemiotic Theory, by adopting eclectic models based on: Sonessons' "Pictorial Semiotics
Theory" (1989), Fauconnier and Turners' "Blending Theory" (2002), Lakoff and Johnsons'
"Metaphorical Concept Theory" (1999), and Van Dijks' "Ideological Theory" (2006). The
study follows the qualitative method of collecting and analysing data. The selected data are
20 political cartoons which are classified into five sections according to different purposes.
As a result, political cartoons need to be taken seriously because of their important role in
exposing the corruption of some politicians. The study also proves that the cognitive aspects
are cooperating with the semiotics in the understanding, perception, and interpreting of new
information which cannot be found before.
huge messages to visualise, criticise, and expose the corruption of some politicians. This
study also attempts to fill the gap in dealing with political cartoons in Iraq and how these
cartoons have an effect and how to be effective. There is a relationship between eyes and
mind, this study reveals this relation which it is between semiotics and cognitive. This type
of cartoons also have especial ability to make change, they need to be made in reliable. The
study aims at: highlight the important role of political cartoons towards the corruption in
Iraq, identify the cognitive semiotics aspects in political cartoons, clarify the way that
cartoons succeed in providing full understanding of the intended messages, and examine if
political cartoons are taken seriously in Iraq. The analysis of the data follows a CognitiveSemiotic Theory, by adopting eclectic models based on: Sonessons' "Pictorial Semiotics
Theory" (1989), Fauconnier and Turners' "Blending Theory" (2002), Lakoff and Johnsons'
"Metaphorical Concept Theory" (1999), and Van Dijks' "Ideological Theory" (2006). The
study follows the qualitative method of collecting and analysing data. The selected data are
20 political cartoons which are classified into five sections according to different purposes.
As a result, political cartoons need to be taken seriously because of their important role in
exposing the corruption of some politicians. The study also proves that the cognitive aspects
are cooperating with the semiotics in the understanding, perception, and interpreting of new
information which cannot be found before.
