期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：The sense of contradiction between Gernsheim’s statement (cited in Bisi, 2015: p. 228),image language is universal and that of Fairclough’s (1992), image can be a source ofambiguity and creativity, has pushed the researchers to conduct the present study. Besides,surveying the literature review of caricature images, the researchers have found that still muchwork needs to be done as far as images are concerned in different disciplines in general and inlinguistics in particular to bridge the many gaps there. Accordingly, the objective of the currentresearch is to examine students’ ability to identify the denotative key-signs that help access andshare the intended denotative meaning and/or highlight other denotative meaning potentialsfrom a detextualised image caricature. To achieve the objective of the study, the researchersadopted a cognitive semantic model, Domain Analysis by Ronald Langacker (1987)amalgamated with the semiotic concept of denotation by Ronald Barthes from his theory entitledMythologies (1957). The study has revealed that only (19%) of the respondents were able to fullyaccess the right denotative meaning. This very low percentage revealed the fact that therespondents could not invest the identified denotational key-signs in building the rightdenotational meaning.
