Visual representation of ASUU strikes in Nigeria:a semiotic analysis of cartoons in selected Nigerian newspapers
作者机构：Department of LinguisticsFaculty of ArtsNnamdi Azikiwe UniversityAwkaAnambra StateNigeria
出 版 物：《Language and Semiotic Studies》 (语言与符号学研究（英文）)
年 卷 期：2023年第9卷第2期
页 面：242-262页
学科分类：08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）]
主 题：2022 ASUU strike cartoons Nigeria SFL social semiotics visual representation
摘 要：Until recently,the study of language and meaning of cartoons,the media discourses they generate,and their analysis as a creative means of exploring meaning-making processes as semiotic resources have not received much scholarly attention in *** cartoons that involve the use of satire and humour as visual representations of reality have gained prominence across many media platforms in Nigeria,only a few scholars have examined this from a social semiotics *** has created a gap in the literature,thus creating room for a para-digm shift in the field of social *** study explores the semiotics of car-toons in selected Nigerian newspapers to examine the meaning-making resources employed in the visual representation of ASUU strikes in *** study,there-fore,examines how cartoonists manipulate symbols,signs,and other semiotic resources to convey specific meanings through visual and textual *** study adopts a qualitative research design;data comprising cartoons sourced from selected Vanguard Newspapers and websites are analyzed using Kress and Van Leeuwen s visual semiotics and interpreted from the standpoints of Halliday s Systematic Functional Linguistics(SFL)approach and O Halloran s position on metaphorical constructions of ***,metaphorical manipulation and rep-resentation of visual elements in the selected cartoons are *** from the study show the use of semiotic resources in the portrayer of reality in the context of the seemingly intractable ASUU strikes and their consequences on aca-demic activities in *** scholarly intervention deserves attention as it significantly contributes to the field of social semiotics through its visual represen-tation in portraying challenges faced by the educational systems in Nigeria vis-a-vis poorgovernment funding.
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