The visual rhetoric of iconic photographs as topoi in editorial cartoons: an argumentative analysis

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Authors
Publication date 2020
Host editors
  • C. Dutilh Novaes
  • H. Jansen
  • J.A. van Laar
  • B. Verheij
Book title Reason to Dissent
Book subtitle Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation
ISBN
  • 9781848903326
Series Studies in Logic. Logic and Argumentation
Event 3rd European Conference on Argumentation
Volume | Issue number II
Pages (from-to) 287-301
Publisher London: College Publications
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract This paper describes the visual rhetoric of the use of iconic photographs as topoi in editorial cartoons and indicate how the audience can reconstruct the argumentative message underlying the cartoon. With the aid of a model that is developed for the reconstruction of the argumentation underlying cartoons in which an iconic photograph is used as topos an exemplary analysis is given of the visual rhetoric and the underlying argumentation of an editorial cartoon.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/logic/sla/?00013
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