Autore: Renna, Dora
Titolo: “The penguins are feeling it”: A Multimodal Pragmatic Analysis of Delegitimisation in Anti-Trade War Memes
Periodico: Textus
Anno: 2026 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 175 - Pagina finale: 200

In the context of growing global tensions, Internet memes have become key sites of popular dissent. This paper examines a small corpus of anti-trade war memes from 2025, showing how they deploy multimodal strategies of delegitimisation to challenge political authority by disrupting Grice’s Cooperative principle and performing face-threatening acts (FTAs). These memes harness captioning, image macros, and intertextual references to produce humorous yet caustic political commentaries. The findings show how memes articulate a playful but subversive form of delegitimisation of political discourse, contributing to multimodal pragmatics and to our understanding of contemporary digital participation.




SICI: 1824-3967(2026)1<175:&PAFIA>2.0.ZU;2-M
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.7370/120124
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