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Publication details [#49327]

Wigston, David. 2002. Aids and political cartoons: a case study. Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research 28 (2) : 74–94.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

comic strip | disease terminology | newspaper report | political language | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Employing a model by Medhurst and Desousa, considering the political cartoon as a rhetorical device, this paper explores the role played by political cartoons, published in major South African newspapers during the period 1988-2001, in the Aids struggle.