A Multmodal Analysis of Political Cartoons and the Discourse of Palestinians' Displacement: Sheikh Jarrah Case

Autor/inn/en	Lulu, Reem Adib; Abdul Racman, Sohayle M. Hadji; Habeeb, Luwaytha Salah
Titel	A Multmodal Analysis of Political Cartoons and the Discourse of Palestinians' Displacement: Sheikh Jarrah Case
Quelle	In: rEFLections, 29 (2022) 3, S.700-717 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1513-5934
Schlagwörter	Discourse Analysis; Arabs; Foreign Countries; Semiotics; Cartoons; Political Attitudes; Newspapers; Internet; Computational Linguistics; Color; Nonverbal Communication; Power Structure; Disadvantaged; Land Settlement; Jews; Violence; Conflict; Refugees; Multimedia Materials; Palestine; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Diskursanalyse; Arab; Araber; Ausland; Semiotik; Zeichentrickfilm; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Newspaper; Zeitung; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Siedlungsraum; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Gewalt; Konflikt; Flüchtling; Palästina
Abstract	This study aims to explore the political cartoons that highlight the displacement of Palestinians in the village of Sheikh Jarrah. It investigates the way this discourse is portrayed as well as the predominant themes of these cartoons. The data of this study consists of eight political cartoons drawn from Palestinian online newspapers from May to July 2021, featuring the displacement issue of Sheik Jarrah by well-known local cartoonists. Multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) in which language analysis is combined with the analysis of other semiotic resources including colors, gestures, images, etc. for interpreting meaning (O'Halloran et al., 2011), is adopted for the analysis. Visual Social Semiotics of Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) is also used as a linguistic framework. The study asserts that understanding the three different aspects of the visual compositions, namely, representational, interactive and compositional, that serve as a semiotic mode of communication, is essential for conveying the intended message of the visual compositions. The study also identifies the predominant themes or messages of the selected cartoons, which mainly focus on two main points: (i) the tyranny and oppression of Israel over Palestinians through eradication and displacement; and (ii) the Palestinians' struggle, steadfastness and resistance in the event of Israel's forced displacement. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01