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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">30643</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-27107</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Pragmatic and stylistic persperctives on British and American COVID-19 cartoons</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Прагматические и стилистические особенности британских и американских политических карикатур на тему COVID-19</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Pavlina</surname><given-names>Svetlana Y.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Павлина</surname><given-names>Светлана Юрьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">PhD, is Associate Professor at the Higher School of Translation and Interpreting</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры теории и практики английского языка и перевода</bio><email>pavlina.svetlana@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Нижегородский государственный лингвистический университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-03-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 26, NO1 (2022)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 26, №1 (2022)</issue-title><fpage>162</fpage><lpage>193</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-03-30"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Pavlina S.Y.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Павлина С.Ю.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2022, Pavlina S.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Pavlina S.Y.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Павлина С.Ю.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Pavlina S.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/30643">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/30643</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The research aims to compare and contrast British and American visual communication texts which are based on the combination on semiotically diverse modes. Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis the paper explores the way a specific segment of reality - the COVID-19 pandemic - is covered in political cartoons that employ the same language but are grounded in different cultural settings. To this end, a contrastive analysis of editorial cartoons used in British and American mass media was carried out. The sample encompasses 130 British and 130 American graphical texts published in 2020-2021 on the web sites of The Guardian and U.S. News &amp; World Report . The article focuses on the way the new meaning is produced due to the interaction of visual and verbal modes using the information shared by members of a specific linguacultural community. At first the pragmatic and functional properties of the sample texts are examined, then the stylistic features of the texts’ verbal components are studied. Taking a functional perspective, the research reveals the marked differences in two respective samples: the British COVID-19 cartoons criticize the government’s policies, whereas the American ones do not only satirize but also acclaim, creating a positive image of those responsible for vaccination production and rolling out. They tend to use slogans to mobilize the public, performing the function typical of political posters. Drawing on the stylistic analysis of linguistic resources, the paper analyzes the differences in registers and rhetorical means used by British and American cartoonists to shape their messages. Both pragmatic aspects of the cartoons and the choice of stylistic devices used in their linguistic elements proved to be culture-specific, despite the similarity of issues the texts address. The research elucidates the way the cultural landscape affects the meaning-building processes in multimodal texts that employ different variants of the same language.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Исследование направлено на сопоставление британских и американских текстов визуальной политической коммуникации как конструктов, совмещающих разнородные семиотические коды. В статье рассматривается, как определенный фрагмент действительности - борьба с вирусом COVID-19 - находит отражение в политических карикатурах, выполненных с использованием одного языка, но погруженных в разные культурные контексты. Цель статьи - выявить механизмы взаимодействия вербального и изобразительного кодов при создании авторского посыла в англоязычных текстах визуальной политической коммуникации, имеющих разные социальные и культурные основы. С применением мультимодального критического дискурс-анализа и стилистического анализа проводится сопоставление политических карикатур, опубликованных в британских и американских СМИ. Материалом послужили 130 британских и 130 американских графических текстов, созданных в 2020-2021 и размещенных на сайтах изданий The Guardian и U.S. News &amp; World Report . На первом этапе были проанализированы функционально-прагматические свойства двух групп политических карикатур, затем были определены стилистические особенности лингвистических компонентов текстов выборки. Исследование функционально-прагматических характеристик двух групп графических текстов обнаруживает явные различия: британские политические карикатуры критикуют действия правительства по борьбе с пандемией, в то время как американские карикатуры носят не только сатирический характер, но и создают положительный образ тех, кто отвечает за вакцинацию населения. В этом отношении они имеют явное сходство с политическими плакатами, поскольку содержат лозунги и выполняют мобилизационную функцию. Различия выявляются и в плане стилистики вербальных элементов текстов, в частности в использовании единиц сниженного регистра и применении тропеических средств. Проведенный анализ демонстрирует, как две группы текстов освещают схожие темы, но обнаруживают различия как в плане функциональных характеристик, так и в выборе стилистических средств, применяемых в лингвистическом компоненте, что объясняется несходством социального и культурного контекстов. Исследование открывает новые перспективы для определения роли культурного ландшафта при формировании смысла поликодовых текстов, выполненных на основе вариантов одного языка.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>cartoon</kwd><kwd>political communication</kwd><kwd>multimodal text</kwd><kwd>pragmatic properties</kwd><kwd>cartoon stylistics</kwd><kwd>COVID-19</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>карикатура</kwd><kwd>политическая коммуникация</kwd><kwd>поликодовый текст</kwd><kwd>прагматические характеристики</kwd><kwd>стилистический аспект карикатур</kwd><kwd>COVID-19</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Denisova, Galina L. 2018. The category of time in political cartoons. Mir Lingvistiki i Kommunikatsii: Electronniy Zhurnal 3. 51-69. (In Russ.)</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Chapligina Yuliya S. 2006. 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