This article discusses different types of “argumentativeness” in three memes related to overweight jokes posted a community meme generation (quickmeme.com) July 2021. We aim show how visual argument, image rhetoric, and social prejudice devices enable the creation “joking” that frame an audience's meaning-making towards prejudiced ideas. The methodological procedure was based on analytical proc...

AbstrakPenelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode interpretasi analisis pendekatan grafis, bertujuan untuk menjelaskan identitas ilustrasi Kharisma Jati dalam buku komik humor satir God You Must Be Joking (GYMBJ). Fokus permasalahan penelitian ada dua, yaitu mencari ciri khas gaya dan teknik yang biasa oleh Jati. Penelitian memiliki tujuan bentuk GYMBJ bagaimana aspek-aspek membangun ilustrasinya. ...

The chosen article by Chinua Achebe brought a hugely different angle of Conrad’s Heart Darkness i.e., the racist angle. He mentioned keyways text becomes so oblivious that readers ‘normalize’ novella. In critically acclaimed works, there is covert racism pointed out to global audience. Even as reader from ‘Orient’ it took me some time absorb obvious fact staring right into face every reader. pr...

Imitation in the form of repeating speech sounds, accents, and words plays a foundational role in the normal acquisition and development of language (Meltzoff et al., 2009; Adank et al., 2013) eventually contributing to a life-long fine-tuning of communication skills (Tannen, 1987; Delvaux and Soquet, 2007). Imitation of prosodic and paralinguistic features may be intentional in certain context...

The coming Republican National Convention is expected to attract approximately 45,000 politicians, guests and visitors to Philadelphia. But that doesn't include the estimated thousands of protesters that have also indicated they will turn out for the RNC — and spend July 31 to August 4 demonstrating in Philadelphia. Police have planned for activists by allotting them a protest space in FDR park...

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This article is an attempt to develop a posthumanist messianic figure additional those created by Walter Benjamin in 20th century. The task of figures provide way living the times crisis. I argue that era we live –the anthropocene (with all its catastrophes) –requires update Benjamin’s philosophy. Therefore use case study rock climbers as collective subject dismantles dominant language historic...