Young people's readings of a political cartoon and the concept of multimodal literacy

El Refaie, Elisabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5928-9297 and Hörschelmann, Kathrin 2010. Young people's readings of a political cartoon and the concept of multimodal literacy. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 31 (2) , pp. 195-207. 10.1080/01596301003679719

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Abstract

This article uses young people's responses to a newspaper cartoon as a way of exploring the concept of multimodal literacy. The discussion draws on data from a study which aimed to elicit the geopolitical views of 16–19-year-olds in a multi-ethnic British city by using cartoons as a way of encouraging them to talk about their thoughts and feelings towards recent political events. We argue that, contrary to popular perceptions, political cartoons are complex and polysemous and require a particular form of literacy. This not only encompasses the ability to read visual grammar, but also an understanding of the cartoon genre and how it is constructed, with a view to conveying particular meanings within a specific social and cultural context.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	critical geopolitics, metaphor, multimodal literacy, newspaper cartoons, systemic functional linguistics, youth politics
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0159-6306
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 12:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/11809

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