Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger

The aim of this research paper is to analyse the key political posters made for the campaigns of Irish political party Fianna Fáil framed in the Celtic Tiger (1997-2008) and post-Celtic Tiger years (2009-2012). I will then focus on the four posters of the candidate in the elections that took place i...

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Autor principal: Martínez Lirola,María
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 2016
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-093420160002000052016-07-25Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic TigerMartínez Lirola,María Political discourse critical discourse analysis visual grammar social actors Celtic Tiger period The aim of this research paper is to analyse the key political posters made for the campaigns of Irish political party Fianna Fáil framed in the Celtic Tiger (1997-2008) and post-Celtic Tiger years (2009-2012). I will then focus on the four posters of the candidate in the elections that took place in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2011 with the intention of observing first how the leader is represented, and later on pinpointing the similarities and possible differences between each. This is important in order to observe the main linguistic and visual strategies used to persuade the audience to vote that party and to highlight the power of the politician. Critical discourse analysis tools will be helpful to identify the main discursive strategies employed to persuade the Irish population to vote in a certain direction. Van Leeuwen’s (2008) social actor theory will facilitate the understanding of how participants are represented in the corpus under analysis. Finally, the main tools of Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar (2006) will be applied for the analysis of the images. The study reveals that politicians are represented in a consistently positive way, with status and formal appearance so that people are persuaded to vote for the party they represent because they trust them as political leaders. The study, thus, points out that the poster is a powerful tool used in election campaigns to highlight the power of political parties.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del LenguajeRevista signos v.49 n.91 20162016-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-09342016000200005en10.4067/S0718-09342016000200005
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topic Political discourse
critical discourse analysis
visual grammar
social actors
Celtic Tiger period
spellingShingle Political discourse
critical discourse analysis
visual grammar
social actors
Celtic Tiger period
Martínez Lirola,María
Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger
description The aim of this research paper is to analyse the key political posters made for the campaigns of Irish political party Fianna Fáil framed in the Celtic Tiger (1997-2008) and post-Celtic Tiger years (2009-2012). I will then focus on the four posters of the candidate in the elections that took place in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2011 with the intention of observing first how the leader is represented, and later on pinpointing the similarities and possible differences between each. This is important in order to observe the main linguistic and visual strategies used to persuade the audience to vote that party and to highlight the power of the politician. Critical discourse analysis tools will be helpful to identify the main discursive strategies employed to persuade the Irish population to vote in a certain direction. Van Leeuwen’s (2008) social actor theory will facilitate the understanding of how participants are represented in the corpus under analysis. Finally, the main tools of Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar (2006) will be applied for the analysis of the images. The study reveals that politicians are represented in a consistently positive way, with status and formal appearance so that people are persuaded to vote for the party they represent because they trust them as political leaders. The study, thus, points out that the poster is a powerful tool used in election campaigns to highlight the power of political parties.
author Martínez Lirola,María
author_facet Martínez Lirola,María
author_sort Martínez Lirola,María
title Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger
title_short Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger
title_full Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger
title_fullStr Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger
title_full_unstemmed Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger
title_sort multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in ireland during and after the celtic tiger
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje
publishDate 2016
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