期刊名称:Jurnal Komunikasi : Malaysian Journal of Communication
印刷版ISSN:2289-151X
电子版ISSN:2289-1528
出版年度:2016
卷号:32
期号:1
页码:625-650
出版社:Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
摘要:Tun Dr Mahathir was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, who was well known for his leadership values and major contributions to the country's development. The dynamic and long career of Tun Dr Mahathir had given a lot of ideas and materials for Lat, a famous Malaysian cartoonist, in producing editorial cartoons with which Tun Dr Mahathir is the main character. Having said that, this paper thus aims to discuss the representations of Tun Dr Mahathir's leadership in Lat's editorial cartoons. The data for this study were 98 Lat's editorial cartoons which were published in local newspapers from 1979 to 2004. The visual analysis was conducted using Multimodality,