Abstract
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic and cultural aspect of caricature texts from the point of view of meaning using the example of protests in Hong Kong represented by the Englishlanguage media. The theoretical review considers such terms and concepts as political caricature, creolized text, linguistic cultural aspect and presuppositions. Political caricature is interpreted as a creolized text, which is an element of political discourse, which meaning is realized based on certain presuppositions, or background knowledge, which in turn is updated through a number of speech and stylistic means. As an example the analytical part of the paper provides analyses of five English-language publications on this topic. The analysis allows illustrating the mechanism for the formation and subsequent implementation of meaning at both the speech and iconic levels of a text, and also demonstrates the role of background knowledge in creating and perceiving the meaning of a political caricature.
Highlights
The relevance of the problem discussed in this paper lies in the continued interest of researchers in a related, interdisciplinary approach in analyzing how the language reflects certain situations from different spheres of human experience
The purpose is the study of peculiarities of linguistic and cultural elements in the formation of key images of a political conflict in English-language political caricatures describing the protests in Hong Kong
The discursive analysis of 5 political caricatures from English-speaking authors revealed the implementations of such stylistic techniques as metaphors, of which three are metaphors-animalization (China-dragon and Hong Kong-porcupine); irony, which is found in all five texts; two examples of verbal allusion; and one example of verbal-iconic synecdoche
Summary
The relevance of the problem discussed in this paper lies in the continued interest of researchers in a related, interdisciplinary approach in analyzing how the language reflects certain situations from different spheres of human experience. From this perspective the problems of linguistic implementation through the linguistic and cultural aspect to a certain degree are interesting. From this point of view, the object of this study, namely the creolized representation of the aggravated political situation in the aspect of linguistic and cultural analysis, seems relevant. At the same time, such an analysis cannot be complete and integral without taking into account the role of linguistic and semantic methods and means
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