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6. Spanish Humor and Political Culture Through Cartoons: Multimodal Discursive Analysis of Forges’s Socio-political, Graphic Universe

verfasst von : María del Mar Rivas-Carmona

Erschienen in: Communicating Political Humor in the Media

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

Humor and political culture have always gone hand in hand in contemporary Spain to the extent that the satirical press has not only been a faithful portraitist of political and social concerns, but also humor itself has managed to shape diverse political cultures throughout human history. For more than two centuries, Spain’s satirical press has served as a loudspeaker and reference for such transcendental issues as the Franco dictatorship, the democratic transition, territoriality, and anticlericalism. One of the most popular sections of the daily press in Spain is graphic humor. Some of the cartoonists have become individuals of prestige and relevance, as is the case of Antonio Fraguas i.e., Forges, who portrayed Spanish social and political reality over the past 50 years in such a way that politicians of all ideologies, journalists, and citizens, agree that Spain cannot be conceived without his cartoons. This paper aims to analyze the relationship between political culture and humor in a selection of cartoons by Forges in present-day Spain. For this purpose, considering the importance of the relationship between verbal and non-verbal communicative elements, this study is carried out following the Relevance Theory approach to multimodal texts.

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Titel: Spanish Humor and Political Culture Through Cartoons: Multimodal Discursive Analysis of Forges’s Socio-political, Graphic Universe
verfasst von: María del Mar Rivas-Carmona
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Buch: Communicating Political Humor in the Media
Print ISBN: 978-981-9707-25-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-9707-26-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0726-3_6