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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">RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Теория языка. Семиотика. Семантика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2299</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2411-1236</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">45163</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2299-2025-16-1-61-76</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">PKSTWQ</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>DISCOURSE STUDIES</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ДИСКУРСОЛОГИЯ</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">British and American Political Cartoons in Sociocultural Context</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Англоязычная политическая карикатура в социокультурном контексте</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-795X</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">1087-2959</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Pavlina</surname><given-names>Svetlana Yu.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Павлина</surname><given-names>Светлана Юрьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of Departments of Theory and ead of the Department of Foreign Languages and Professional Communication, Faculty of Humanities</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат филологических наук, доцент руководитель департамента иностранных языков и профессиональной коммуникации</p></bio><email>spavlina@hse.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">HSE University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-07-03" publication-format="electronic"><day>03</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>16</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>61</fpage><lpage>76</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-07-21"><day>21</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Pavlina S.Y.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Павлина С.Ю.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Pavlina S.Y.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Павлина С.Ю.</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/semiotics-semantics/article/view/45163">https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/45163</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This research is set in the framework of sociolinguistics and employs the Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. The article contains the contrastive analysis of British and American political cartoons that are viewed as multimodal texts embedded in social and cultural landscapes. To shape their messages the authors employ verbal, iconic, graphical and colour codes which interact with each other and broad contexts building intersemiotic and intertextual ties. So far these aspects haven’t been studied in regard to different variants of one and the same language. The present research aims to fill this gap in modern scholarship. The sample includes 150 British and 150 American political cartoons published by The Guardian and US Today in 2020-2021. The analysis of British and American cartoons reveals that their authors tend to use similar resources to make the cartoons appealing, such as grotesque, visual metaphor, bisociation and periphrasis. The difference lies in their employment of the graphical mode. British cartoonists use it to express different prosodic features, to allude to some musical context, which makes British cartoons more polyphonic than American ones. The research also revealed marked differences in sources of intertextuality that encompass national symbols, historical background, symbols of power. However, both British and American cartoons tend to draw on similar elements of world cultural heritage, using Bible as a prior text.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Работа выполнена в русле социолингвистики с применением системнофункционального подхода к анализу мультимодального дискурса. Исследование посвящено сопоставительному анализу британских и американских политических карикатур, которые рассматриваются как креолизованные тексты, инкорпорированные в социально-культурный ландшафт. Создание идеологического посыла карикатуры основано на использовании вербального, иконического, графического и цветового кодов, которые взаимодействуют между собой и с широким контекстом, образуя интерсемиотические и интертекстуальные связи. Актуальность работы заключается в том, что подобное взаимодействие до сих пор не изучалось в сопоставительном плане на примере вариантов одного и того же языка. Материалом послужили 150 британских и 150 американских политических карикатур, размещенных в электронных версиях газет The Guardian и US Today в 2020-2021 гг. Сопоставление британских и американских карикатур позволяет установить, что их авторы в целом используют схожие средства достижения экспрессивности, а именно гротеск, визуальную метафору, рассогласование вербального и визуального смыслов, перифраз. Различие заключается в использовании графического кода: в британских карикатурах с его помощью передаются разнообразные просодические характеристики, создаются ассоциации с музыкальным контекстом, что делает британские карикатуры более полифоническими в сравнении с американскими. Не совпадают и источники визуальных образов исследуемых групп текстов, такие как национальные символы, исторические явления, символы власти. Некоторое сходство обнаруживается в использовании прецедентных текстов, относящихся к мировому художественному наследию, в частности библейских сюжетов.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>semiotic codes</kwd><kwd>multimodal text</kwd><kwd>intertextuality</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>семиотические коды</kwd><kwd>креолизованный текст</kwd><kwd>интертекстуальность</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Chudinov, A.P. (2006). Political Linguistics. Moscow: Flinta. (In Russ.). EDN: SDQKXT</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Чудинов А.П. Политическая лингвистика. М. : Флинта, 2006. EDN: SDQKXT</mixed-citation></citation-alternatives></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Denisova, G.L. (2018). The category of time in political cartoons. 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