RT Journal Article
T1 The Metaphorical Representation of Brexit in Digital Political Cartoons
A1 Negro Alousque, Isabel
AB Britain's withdrawal from the European Union (“Brexit”) in June 2016 has been one of the biggest issues in British politics and has received wide media coverage because of its consequences for both the UK and the European Union. This article explores the visual representation of Brexit in political cartooning through the analysis of a corpus of digital cartoons. The analysis yields two findings: (1) Brexit is shaped on the basis of a set of metaphors that can be subsumed within metaphor scenarios—the family scenario or the journey scenario; (2) the metaphors used to conceptualize this issue are used either to provide a justification for Brexit or evaluate UK's withdrawal from the EU positively or negatively.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1555-1393
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94703
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94703
LA eng
NO Isabel Negro Alousque (2020) The Metaphorical Representation of Brexit in Digital Political Cartoons, Visual Communication Quarterly, 27:1, 3-12, DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2019.1707084
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025