Charlie Hebdo and the prophet Muhammad: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of peace and violence in a satirical cartoon
Book chapter
Authors | Kilby, Laura and Lennon, Henry |
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Abstract | In this chapter, we examine how ideologies of peace and violence can be (re)produced and communicated via multiple semiotic forms that include, but are not restricted to, language. We grapple with the complexity and importance of the situated-ness of peace and violence, and consider, what does peace, indeed what can peace, look like in a social context where meaning and expression are both multiple and contested. To this end, we undertake a case study analysis, exploring how a multimodal text might be variously interpreted as an explicit display of peace and forgiveness, and yet simultaneously as an oppressive act which knowingly causes offense. In addressing these issues, we relate to Galtung’s (1996, p. 196) typology of violence, and we consider the issue of cultural violence, which he defines as “those aspects of culture, the symbolic sphere of our existence […] that can be used to legitimize direct or structural violence. |
Keywords | Critical discourse analysis, Cultural violence, Discursive psychology, Multimodal discourse analysis, Peace psychology, Political cartoons |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
ISSN | 2197-5779 |
9783319990934 | |
9783319990941 | |
2197-5787 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99094-1 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624771 |
http://www.springer.com/tdm | |
hdl:10545/624771 | |
File | File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | 30 Nov 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 30 Apr 2020, 16:22 |
Accepted | 2018 |
Journal | Peace Psychology Book Series |
Contributors | Sheffield Hallam University |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/95637/charlie-hebdo-and-the-prophet-muhammad-a-multimodal-critical-discourse-analysis-of-peace-and-violence-in-a-satirical-cartoon
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