Carnivalesque Humour in the 2017 Women’s March Protest Posters Against Trumpism: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

The 2017 Women's March is a histo-political icon in the US for women's rights, voice, solidarity, collective identity and power to resist Trump’s ideologized masculinity, racism social hegemony. Although multitude of protest posters Women’s has become core research from different perspectives, there still scarce attention given how body compared Putin’s was used ridicule Trumpism through protestors’ multimodal posters. To cover such gap, this work, turn, focuses mainly on grotesque imagery protesters delegitimize scorn political agenda ‘America First’ ‘Make America Great Again’. Based Bakhtin’s (1984a) carnival theory carnivalesque as an overarching theoretical framework Kress van Leeuwen’s (2006) visual semiotics methodological approach selected corpus, we found that Trump-Putin’s relationship manipulated counter discourse vent protesters’ anger resistance against Trumpism. A work like will significantly add more sociolinguistics linguistics terms considering linguistic nonlinguistic units communication. As such, implies broadening toolkit analysis applied linguistics.