Representation of Regional Political power through Cartoons: A Semiotic Study
Media is an essential tool to describe the current issues from the individual level to international relations. Through presenting images and cartoons, media highlights the occurred situation of the world with specific illustrations. The present research study describes the semiotic analysis of the Pak-India relationship as presented by political cartoons in Pakistani-published Urdu newspapers. As there is an ideological representation of cartoons to present the desired sense through media, so the linguistics and semiotic analysis can counter the meanings and illustrations of such desired ideologies by which meanings are presented. Construction and deconstruction of desired ideologies can be best observed by such loaded semiotics. The discourse approach model of Zubair and Sajid(2011) has been used of semiotic analysis, and for linguistic analysis, the framework of Fairclough's model (2003) of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is adopted to manipulate the hidden ideologies as presented in political cartoons. The linguistic and semiotic analysis of such political cartoons, as presented in media, can be used as the best tool to shape public opinion towards desired realities.
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Power, CDA, SA, Political Cartoons
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(1) Waheeda Rehman
PhD Scholar, Department of English Linguistics, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad./ Lecturer, Department of English, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Havelian, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Quratulain Arshad
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English Linguistics the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
(3) Huda Hameed Qureshi
Assistant Professor, Government Post Graduate College, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Rehman, W., Arshad, Q., & Qureshi, H. H. (2021). Representation of Regional Political power through Cartoons: A Semiotic Study. Global Language Review, VI(II), 239-245. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).25
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CHICAGO : Rehman, Waheeda, Quratulain Arshad, and Huda Hameed Qureshi. 2021. "Representation of Regional Political power through Cartoons: A Semiotic Study." Global Language Review, VI (II): 239-245 doi: 10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).25
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HARVARD : REHMAN, W., ARSHAD, Q. & QURESHI, H. H. 2021. Representation of Regional Political power through Cartoons: A Semiotic Study. Global Language Review, VI, 239-245.
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MHRA : Rehman, Waheeda, Quratulain Arshad, and Huda Hameed Qureshi. 2021. "Representation of Regional Political power through Cartoons: A Semiotic Study." Global Language Review, VI: 239-245
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MLA : Rehman, Waheeda, Quratulain Arshad, and Huda Hameed Qureshi. "Representation of Regional Political power through Cartoons: A Semiotic Study." Global Language Review, VI.II (2021): 239-245 Print.
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OXFORD : Rehman, Waheeda, Arshad, Quratulain, and Qureshi, Huda Hameed (2021), "Representation of Regional Political power through Cartoons: A Semiotic Study", Global Language Review, VI (II), 239-245
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TURABIAN : Rehman, Waheeda, Quratulain Arshad, and Huda Hameed Qureshi. "Representation of Regional Political power through Cartoons: A Semiotic Study." Global Language Review VI, no. II (2021): 239-245. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).25