A Semiotic Approach to Some Internet Political Comic Memes

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate how meaning is created by the combination of different semiotic modes in some Internet political comic memes. More specifically, it investigates the semiotic resources in Trump’s memes during and after the elections of 2016 by using an eclectic model based on Kress and Leewen’s(2006) and Dian’s (2002) models. The paper analyses four Internet political comic memes semiotically. The findings shows that different forms, functions and semiotic modes are employed in Internet political comic memes, such as images, colours, various shots, and types of the camera’s movements.