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cartoon: a standalone construct

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cartoon1 CONSTRUCTPolitical cartoonMEDHURST · SATIRE

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Communication studies

A satirical drawing that argues

In communication and rhetoric a cartoon is a single-panel satirical or editorial drawing that compresses a political argument into exaggerated image and caption. Medhurst and DeSousa's 1981 Political cartoons as rhetorical form treats the cartoon as a persuasive genre with its own devices (caricature, condensation, allusion) that work on an audience much as a speech does. This meaning dates to the mid-nineteenth century and is wholly distinct from a preparatory drawing: here the drawing is itself the finished artefact, and its job is to move opinion. The referent is a rhetorical form, gauged by its uptake and effect rather than by fidelity to a design.[1]

Unit
A persuasive message delivered as one captioned drawing
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Measured by
Analysed by its rhetorical devices and by its reception and persuasive effect on audiences

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References

  1. Medhurst, M. J., & DeSousa, M. A. (1981). Political cartoons as rhetorical form: A taxonomy of graphic discourse. Communication Monographs, 48(3), 197–236. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637758109376059

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