Cognitive aspects of political cartoons

Zaloha M. Cognitive aspects of political cartoons : master’s paper : 035 Philology / Zaloha Marta. - Kyiv, 2020. - 119 p.

The object of the study is represented by the editorial cartoons framing the impeachment process of the US President Donald Trump.
The subject of the study are the cognitive mechanisms used to create the given political cartoons.
The novelty of the research is ensured by the fact that this is the first attempt to analyze the cartoons related to Trump’s impeachment process. Also, it is the only research to complete a complex analysis of multiple cognitive mechanisms employed in the cartoons with the set of 120 samples. As a result of the analysis, main sources of intertextuality in the cartoons were identified. In addition, the conceptual blends were categories according to the frames they appear within. Main metaphors were distinguished and classified according to the repeating source/target component.