Download or read book The Language of Humour and Its Transmutation in Indian Political Cartoons written by Vinod Balakrishnan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a model to examine the language of humour, which is multimodal and accounts for the possibility of transmutation of humour as it is performed through editorial cartoons. By transmutation is meant the transition in the language of humour when it crosses its own boundaries to provoke unprecedented reactions resulting in offensiveness, disappointment or hurt sentiment. The transmutability about the language of humour points to its inherently diabolical nature which manifests in the performance of controversial cartoons. The model is built by borrowing theoretical cues from Roman Jakobson, Roland Barthes, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. The integrated model, then, is developed to examine the cartoons which were recommended for deletion by the Thorat Committee, following a cartoon controversy in India. Through the cartoon analysis, the model discerns the significance of context and temporality in determining the impact of humour. It also examines how the ethics of humour; the blurred lines of political correctness and incorrectness are dictated by the political atmosphere and the power dynamics.
Download or read book The Language of Humour and Its Transmutation in Indian Political Cartoons written by Vinod Balakrishnan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a model to examine the language of humour, which is multimodal and accounts for the possibility of transmutation of humour as it is performed through editorial cartoons. By transmutation is meant the transition in the language of humour when it crosses its own boundaries to provoke unprecedented reactions resulting in offensiveness, disappointment or hurt sentiment. The transmutability about the language of humour points to its inherently diabolical nature which manifests in the performance of controversial cartoons. The model is built by borrowing theoretical cues from Roman Jakobson, Roland Barthes, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. The integrated model, then, is developed to examine the cartoons which were recommended for deletion by the Thorat Committee, following a cartoon controversy in India. Through the cartoon analysis, the model discerns the significance of context and temporality in determining the impact of humour. It also examines how the ethics of humour; the blurred lines of political correctness and incorrectness are dictated by the political atmosphere and the power dynamics.
Download or read book MAKING SENSE OF MYTH AND MYTHOPOEIA written by and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of Myth and Mythopoeia stands out for its unique and holistic treatment of mythmaking in the current set-up. Renowned mythopoeic writers Anand Neelakantan and Anuja Chandramouli offer deep insights into the genre thereby making the book an unputdownable must-read for myth lovers. The book also houses revisionist texts by Swarnalatha Rangarajan and A.V. Koshy. The subtitle is justified in The Editor's Workshop where the editors offer key pointers for interpreting a mythopoeic text. In the section titled The Critic/ Researcher, research papers by academicians serve as illustrations of what goes best into exploring a revisionist rendering. Sujatha Aravindakshan Menon offers a wide-ranging theoretical framework that applies to mythological renderings. Things don't end here. Readers and myth lovers discover the ‘Goodreads’ to fan their passion for generative/ adaptive renderings in the section Book Reports/ Reviews.
Download or read book Conversations with Indian Cartoonists written by Vinod Balakrishnan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up the pen is, sometimes, like playing with fire, especially in the business of political cartooning. In a profession of stroke-and-tell, where less is more, the brooding cartoonist turns everyday events into spaces for engagement. They draw the line between concern and apathy to bring issues into public view, invariably, shaking us out of our inattentional blindness. After all, they are a tribe––an endangered one––with the silly belief that the funny bone must be tickled. Cartooning in India––a Raj legacy––has come a long way from its colonial beginnings and Punch-imitations. Since Independence, newspapers have hosted the bold and often audacious irreverence of the likes of Shankar and R. K. Laxman. Their laconic lines gave the “Common Man” the voice of an honest opinion. This volume presents conversations with India’s leading political cartoonists which take us into that recondite art of political commentating.
Download or read book Studies in Political Humour written by Villy Tsakona and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. It shows how political humour can be manipulated in public debates or become an integral part of postmodern art.
Download or read book On the Discourse of Satire written by Paul Simpson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour. Combining a range of theoretical frameworks in stylistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, Simpson examines both the methods of textual composition and the strategies of interpretation for satire. Verbal irony is central to the model, in respect of which Simpson isolates three principal “ironic phases” that shape the uptake of satirical humour. Throughout the book, consistent emphasis is placed on satire’s status as a culturally situated discursive practice, while the categories of the model proposed are amply illustrated with textual examples. A notable feature of the book is a chapter on the legal implications of using satirical humour as a weapon of attack in the public domain. A book where Jonathan Swift meets Private Eye magazine, this entertaining and thought-provoking study will interest those working in stylistics, humorology, pragmatics and discourse analysis. It also has relevance for forensic discourse analysis, and for media, literary and cultural studies.
Download or read book Comics in Translation written by Federico Zanettin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics are a pervasive art form and an intrinsic part of the cultural fabric of most countries. And yet, relatively little has been written on the translation of comics. Comics in Translation attempts to address this gap in the literature and to offer the first and most comprehensive account of various aspects of a diverse range of social practices subsumed under the label 'comics'. Focusing on the role played by translation in shaping graphic narratives that appear in various formats, different contributors examine various aspects of this popular phenomenon. Topics covered include the impact of globalization and localization processes on the ways in which translated comics are embedded in cultures; the import of editorial and publishing practices; textual strategies adopted in translating comics, including the translation of culture- and language-specific features; and the interplay between visual and verbal messages. Comics in translation examines comics that originate in different cultures, belong to quite different genres, and are aimed at readers of different age groups and cultural backgrounds, from Disney comics to Art Spiegelman's Maus, from Katsuhiro Ōtomo's Akira to Goscinny and Uderzo's Astérix. The contributions are based on first-hand research and exemplify a wide range of approaches. Languages covered include English, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, French, German, Japanese and Inuit. The volume features illustrations from the works discussed and an extensive annotated bibliography. Contributors include: Raffaella Baccolini, Nadine Celotti, Adele D'Arcangelo, Catherine Delesse, Elena Di Giovanni, Heike Elisabeth Jüngst, Valerio Rota, Carmen Valero-Garcés, Federico Zanettin and Jehan Zitawi.
Download or read book Distinction written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to World Literature written by Ben Etherington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literary production is affected by forces such as imperialism and globalization. The essays demonstrate how detailed critical engagements with particular literary texts call forth differing conceptions of world literature, and, conversely, how theories of world literature shape our practices of readings. Subjects covered include cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, internationalism, scale and systems, sociological criticism, translation, scripts, and orality. This book also includes original analyses of genres and forms, ranging from tragedy to the novel and graphic fiction, lyric poetry to the short story and world cinema.
Download or read book Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction written by Klaus J. Kohler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosody in English, German and Chinese is outlined as a principal component of linguistic form for communicative functions in speech interaction.
Download or read book Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spaces of Identity written by David Morley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.
Download or read book EBOOK Critical Theories of Mass Media Then and Now written by Paul Taylor and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-12-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a welcome critical corrective to complacent mainstream accounts of the media's cultural impact". Prof. Slavoj Zizek, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London "A powerful and highly engaging re-assessment of past critical thinkers (including those not normally thought of as critical) in the light of today's mediascape". Jorge Reina Schement, Distinguished Professor of Communications, Penn State University With the exception of occasional moral panics about the coarsening of public discourse, and the impact of advertising and television violence upon children, mass media tend to be viewed as a largely neutral or benign part of contemporary life. Even when criticisms are voiced, the media chooses how and when to discuss its own inadequacies. More radical external critiques are often excluded and media theorists are frequently more optimistic than realistic about the negative aspects of mass culture. This book reassesses this situation in the light of both early and contemporary critical scholarship and explores the intimate relationship between the mass media and the dis-empowering nature of commodity culture. The authors cast a fresh perspective on contemporary mass culture by comparing past and present critiques. They: Outline the key criticisms of mass culture from past critical thinkers Reassess past critical thought in the changed circumstances of today Evaluate the significance of new critical thinkers for today's mass culture The book begins by introducing the critical insights from major theorists from the past - Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor Adorno, Marshall McLuhan and Guy Debord. Paul Taylor and Jan Harris then apply these insights to recent provocative writers such as Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Žižek, and discuss the links between such otherwise apparently unrelated contemporary events as the Iraqi Abu Ghraib controversy and the rise of reality television. Critical Theories of Mass Media is a key text for students of cultural studies, communications and media studies, and sociology.
Download or read book Unequal Opportunities written by Margaret Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Monograph on unequal opportunities for women regarding their portrayal and participation in mass media - examines image, employment, working conditions, vocational training, etc. Of women in such media as radio, television, film and newspapers, the use of media in female development projects, widening of opportunities for women, etc., and includes a format (questionnaire) for media analysis. Bibliography pp. 207 to 221.
Download or read book Applied Psychology Readings written by Man-Tak Leung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 edition of the Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP), an event held annually in Singapore. Discussing the latest innovations, trends, concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of applied psychology, it is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and practitioners wishing to keep themselves up to date with the state of the art in the field.
Download or read book Table Talk written by William Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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