Metaphorical Representation of the European Union in Political Cartoons in English and Latvian

• Authors: Solveiga Liepa , Vilma Šaudiņa , Dmitrijs Oļehnovičs

Abstracts

EN

The study is carried out in the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, but since it considers political cartoons that, apart from linguistic, involve also other modes, the findings of theoreticians researching visual and multimodal metaphors are applied. The purpose of the present study is to identify and analyse the visual and multimodal metaphors encountered in cartoons focusing on the European Union matters and to find out if political events are presented in cartoons in English and Latvian on the basis of the same conceptual metaphors.

Keywords

EN

metaphor; multimodality; political cartoon

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 389-400

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Solveiga Liepa

• Daugavpils University, Latvia

author

Vilma Šaudiņa

• Daugavpils University, Latvia

author

Dmitrijs Oļehnovičs

• Daugavpils University, Latvia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1731-7533.19.4.04

Biblioteka Nauki

2129712