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IDEOLOGY TRUDGES ON TABULARASA A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLITICAL CARTOONS IN PAKISTANI NEWSPAPERS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).15      10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).15      Published : Mar 2025

Ideology Trudges on Tabula-Rasa: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Political Cartoons in Pakistani Newspapers

Abstract

    Media has become an inevitable source of information in this era of consumerism where the commodity sells as well as is sold through the discursive devices-both verbal as well as visual. This study explores how perception of socio-political reality is (re/de)constructed through media discourses with ideological underpinning-potent of both face saving and face exploitation. To cope with the research objective, a represented sample comprising political cartoons has been selected from two Pakistani newspapers-Dawn and The Nation, and mixed method is employed to analyse the sample semiotically as well as critically.  For this purpose, Kress and Leeuwen's Model (2006), Fairclough’s Tridimensional Model (1995) and Van Dijk’s model (1995, 2006) have been employed to prove media discourse-a discursive and an ideological construct. The interpretation and integration of findings confirm that the discourses reveal representations of representation instead of reality and which (re/de) construct the perception of indigenous socio-political events.

    (1) Anam Fida
    Visiting Faculty, Bahauddin Zakariya University, /University of Southern Punjab, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Aimun Noor
    Lecturer, Department of English GS (Graduate Studies), National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Irum Musa
    Visiting Faculty, Rawalpindi Women University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Fida, A., Noor, A., & Musa, I. (2025). Ideology Trudges on Tabula-Rasa: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Political Cartoons in Pakistani Newspapers. Global Social Sciences Review, X(I), 169-181. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).15

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Fida, Anam, Aimun Noor, and Irum Musa. 2025. "Ideology Trudges on Tabula-Rasa: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Political Cartoons in Pakistani Newspapers." Global Social Sciences Review, X (I): 169-181 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).15

HARVARD

    HARVARD : FIDA, A., NOOR, A. & MUSA, I. 2025. Ideology Trudges on Tabula-Rasa: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Political Cartoons in Pakistani Newspapers. Global Social Sciences Review, X, 169-181.

MHRA

    MHRA : Fida, Anam, Aimun Noor, and Irum Musa. 2025. "Ideology Trudges on Tabula-Rasa: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Political Cartoons in Pakistani Newspapers." Global Social Sciences Review, X: 169-181

MLA

    MLA : Fida, Anam, Aimun Noor, and Irum Musa. "Ideology Trudges on Tabula-Rasa: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Political Cartoons in Pakistani Newspapers." Global Social Sciences Review, X.I (2025): 169-181 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Fida, Anam, Noor, Aimun, and Musa, Irum (2025), "Ideology Trudges on Tabula-Rasa: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Political Cartoons in Pakistani Newspapers", Global Social Sciences Review, X (I), 169-181

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Fida, Anam, Aimun Noor, and Irum Musa. "Ideology Trudges on Tabula-Rasa: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Political Cartoons in Pakistani Newspapers." Global Social Sciences Review X, no. I (2025): 169-181. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).15