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Accepted Paper:
Superhero contra butcher: Zelensky and Putin in political cartoons on Russian aggression
Orest Semotiuk
(Interregional Academy of Personnel Management)
The paper integrates national and international levels of political humorous discourse. The discoursive dimension of the Russian-Ukrainian war is analyzed with multimodal discourse analysis focusing on the supportive/subversive humor in political cartoons targeting Zelensky and Putin.
Paper long abstract:
The paper integrates national and international levels of political humorous discourse and proposes a multimodal analysis of the discursive dimension of the Russian-Ukrainian war and its implementation in political humor. The paper aims to analyze the distribution of the supportive/subversive humor in World, Ukrainian and Russian political cartoons targeting Ukrainian president Zelensky and Russian president Putin representing the conflict parties with special attention to the presentation/setting. The distribution of supportive vs. subversive poltical humor is based on the analysis of target, focus and setting of political cartoons depicting Putin and Zelensky and on the interaction of verbal and nonverbal elements in the cartoons. Political cartoons can be defined by its goals, frame of reference and means. These corresponding parameters (goal-target, frame of reference-focus, means-setting) as well as the correlation between self-image/external image and supportive/subversive political humor are analytical framework for the paper.