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A cultural meaning of The New Yorker ‘Lawyer cartoon’

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:57 authored by Alexander V Kozin
This essay concerns itself with the Lawyer cartoon, a thematic subgenre of the ‘‘The New Yorker Magazine’’ cartoon, which focuses on the legal profession in the US context. An examination of the cultural meaning of this phenomenon is carried out on the strength of ethnography of communication, which discloses the cartoon as a cultural, social and rhetorical artifact. Among the findings of this study are the structural components, functions, and the rules of configuring the Lawyer cartoon toward it becoming a matter of ‘‘risibility’’ as well as a matter of cultural symbolism. By presenting the attorney as an abnormal character with excessive and hypocritical characteristics, the Lawyer cartoon points to the ascriptions of a disrupted self, making the profession appear as fundamentally inauthentic.

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  • Published

Journal

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

ISSN

0952-8059

Publisher

Springer

Issue

4

Volume

28

Page range

801-823

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  • Media and Film Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-01-12

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