INDICATION OF LOCUS IN QUO IN POLITICAL CARICATURE


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In this paper, the author studies the political caricature as a creolized text which is characterized by categories typical of a homogeneous verbal text. The analysis is based on a concept of a text grid as a means used to represent a certain text category. From this point of view, the local net consists of verbal and iconic means which create space of the caricature and indicate its locus in quo.

Upon analysis of Walter Hanel’s caricatures, the author defines specific characteristics of local references in the political caricature, distinguishes direct and indirect local references. The direct local references are represented by names of places, names of public organizations and abbreviations of those names. Indirect local references are represented by images of realities which preserve local identity (flag, state emblem, elements of national or organization symbols, recognizable buildings, national dishes).

In the political caricature, a metaphor represented with help of verbal and iconic means can perform a function of an indirect local reference. The paper shows that the metaphor can be used to represent an abstract notion as a visual image of the object world (“European Community” → image of a house; “international relations” → image of a bridge).

The author pays attention to close interconnection between components of the local and temporal nets in the caricature and cases of syncretism when one component of the caricature performs functions of both references and indicates time and locus in quo.

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Galina Leonidovna Denisova

Togliatti State University, Togliatti

Author for correspondence.
Email: taraksa@mail.ru

Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor, Professor of Chair “Theory and Methods of Teaching of Foreign Languages and Cultures”

Russian Federation

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