Thulfiqar H. Altahmazi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thulfiqar H. Altahmazi plays a role.
Articles
2024 Humorous but hateful: Linguistic impoliteness and visual dysphemism in anti-Muslim memes Internet Pragmatics 7:2, pp. 219–248 | Article
The paper explores the interplay of impoliteness, ethnic/religious humor and multimodality in online contexts. The argument advanced in the paper is that anti-Muslim memes are instantiations of ethno-religious humor that creatively incorporate linguistic impoliteness and visual dysphemism in… read more
Tracing relevance beyond codes and across modes: A multimodal pragmatic analysis of children’s rights advocacy campaign posters Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Drawing on Relevance Theory, the paper sketches out a framework that accounts for inference-making in creative multimodal texts, taking advocacy campaign posters as its case study. The analysis shows that in each poster semiotic resources are employed to create a micro-narrative exemplifying… read more