The 2013-14 Thai political crisis as reflected in Thai political cartoons
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Iamlaor, Aram (2018). The 2013-14 Thai political crisis as reflected in Thai political cartoons. Retrieved from: https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6401.
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The 2013-14 Thai political crisis as reflected in Thai political cartoons
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Thailand in 2013-14 is a period of political instability. The protest organized by
the PDRC is one of the world’s largest political protests. The movement was an anti
Thaksin cronyism effort to expel Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government.
Eighty-four political cartoons during the period were collected from four newspapers
Bangkok Post, The Nation, Thai Rath, and Daily News. This study aims to investigate
1) how the political cartoonists create humor in their cartoons, 2) kinds of humor the
political cartoonists use in their cartoons, 3) the differences between Thai political
cartoons published in Thai and English newspapers, and 4) ideologies underpin Thai
political cartoons published in the four newspapers. The analysis reveals that in multipanel cartoons, the cartoonists create humor by using incongruity which intentionally
misleads the readers, followed by a punch line so as to make them feel surprised or
laugh. In the cartoons that contain dialogue between two characters, flouting maxims
of Cooperative Principle is also used to create humor. Secondly, the major differences
between Thai and English language newspapers include 1) most of the cartoons in the
Thai language newspapers are in multi panels containing dialogues between two
characters while most of the cartoons in the English language newspapers are in one
panel without dialogues, 2) most of the cartoons in the Thai language newspapers
contain humor but all of the cartoons in the English language newspapers do not contain
humor at all, 3) most of the signifiers in the second-order system used by the cartoonists
to convey meanings on political issues are related to the anti- government side,
especially Suthep and the PDRC, while most of the signifiers related to the pro-government side are about the amnesty bill and the rice pledging scheme, and 4) most
of the cartoons in the Thai language newspapers emphasized bad things of the antigovernment side but nearly all of the cartoons in the English language newspapers
emphasize bad things of the pro- government groups. Finally, after the cartoons were
analyzed by using the ideological square to find ideologies underpin the cartoons, it can
be concluded that each cartoonist has strong opinions on political issues. They always
emphasize bad things of the persons or the political groups that they oppose, especially
on the issues related to politics rather than on personality of a person.
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Thesis (Ph.D. (Language and Communication))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2018