THE 2013-14 THAI POLITICAL CRISIS AS REFLECTED IN THAI POLITICAL CARTOONS
Keywords:
cartoon, newspaper, political crisis, semiotics, ThailandAbstract
This study aimed to investigate 84 political cartoons published during the 2013-14 Thai political crisis from four newspapers: Bangkok Post, The Nation, Thai Rath, and Daily News, by using semiotics, theories of cartoons, theories of humor, and critical discourse analysis. According to the data, it was found that in multi-panel cartoons, the cartoonists create humor by using incongruity and flouting maxims of Cooperative Principle. Secondly, the differences between Thai and English language newspapers include 1) most of the cartoons in the Thai language newspapers are in multi panels while most of the cartoons in the English language newspapers are in one panel, 2) most of the cartoons in the Thai language newspapers contain humor but all of the cartoons in the English language newspapers contain no humor, 3) most of the signifiers in the cartoons are related to the anti-government side, and 4) most of the cartoons in the Thai language newspapers emphasized negative things of the anti-government side but nearly all of the cartoons in the English language newspapers emphasize negative things of the pro-government side. Finally, the cartoons show strong political partisanship of the cartoonists that may create hatred and social fragmentation among people in the country.
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