The Multimodal Rhetoric of Humour in Saudi Media Cartoons

by Martin Howard and Wejdan Alsadi

Cartoons, as a form of humour and entertainment, are a social product which are revealing of different social and political practices that prevail in a society, humourised and satirised by the cartoonist. This book advances research on cartoons and humour in the Saudi context. It contributes to the growing multimodal research on non-interactional humour in the media that benefits from traditional theories of verbal humour. The study analyses the interaction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501516728
• ISBN13: 9781501516726
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"