Savitri GadavanijIamlaor, Aram2023-05-082023-05-082018b207919https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6401Thesis (Ph.D. (Language and Communication))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2018Thailand 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.348 leavesapplication/pdfengผลงานนี้เผยแพร่ภายใต้ สัญญาอนุญาตครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์แบบ แสดงที่มา-ไม่ใช้เพื่อการค้า-ไม่ดัดแปลง 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)Thailand -- Politics and governmentPolitical activityCartoons and Caricaturestext--thesis--doctoral thesis10.14457/NIDA.the.2018.113