We can notice that pictorial metaphor works with the advertisements, but the question raises itself "Does the pictorial metaphor work with the political newspaper discourse?"
Take a look on Chalie Hebdo, and you will see a very dynamic interplay between metaphorical and often hyperbolic drawings and a sober critical text. Charlie Hebdo is of course a rather untypical 'newspaper' but a most interesting weekly. This works so well, I think, because thesatirical genre allows much more to be said than what is permitted in the daily papers.
Then take a look at these pictorial metaphor drawings:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlie-hebdo-cartoons-paris-french-newspaper-shooting_n_6429552
Ali Hussein Hazem thanks. I took a look on it. It is very useful.
Per Aage Brandt Thanks. It's in French. It would be great to have English ones.
I really appreciate it. :)
I am Danish, my example was French, which I state in English. Semiotics is international, like the logic of metaphor. Of course, the USE of graphic-pictorial metaphor varies a lot from country to country; but it is always forceful, either as a critical tool or as an instrument of propaganda — the difference may be that the critical use has humour (a sign of intellect), whereas the propaganda version only has pathos. Example: drawing Putin as a rat = propaganda; drawing Putin as God (because he thinks he is above the law) = criticism.
This is really awesome Mr. Per Aage Brandt . Thank you so much.
You can have a look to the volume Law, Culture, and Visual Studies (Springer 2014) for some suggestions
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