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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 KozinThis 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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International Journal for the Semiotics of LawISSN
0952-8059Publisher
SpringerExternal DOI
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4Volume
28Page range
801-823Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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