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政治漫画中隐喻的存在为传达有关社会经验的信息提供了深刻的途径。本文通过对尼日利亚著名漫画家Mike Asukwo创作的两幅政治漫画《不透明的风格》和《禁闭上的神谕》中包含的语言视觉信息进行符号学分析,探讨面具如何被用作隐喻来批评尼日利亚的领导危机。在不透明和神谕式沉默的背景框架下,面具在漫画中被隐喻地应用,以显示统治阶级和群众之间明显的脱节。对漫画中使用的语言和视觉信息进行内涵解读,将尼日利亚的政治领导人描绘成神秘、欺骗、冷漠和缺乏同情心的人。虽然在《Opaque Style》中,时尚风格的比较观点被用来幽默地锚定信息和讽刺,但在《Oracle on locked》中,这些都是通过使用神谕实践来表达的。
Masking as a Metaphor for Leadership Crisis in Mike Asukwo’s Opaque Style and Oracle on Lockdown
The presence of metaphors in political cartoons offers insightful pathways for communicating information about societal experiences. This article examines how masking is used as a metaphor to critique Nigeria's leadership crisis using a semiotic analysis of the verbal-visual messages contained in two political cartoons, Opaque Style and Oracle on Lockdown, by prominent Nigerian cartoonist Mike Asukwo. Operating within the contextual frames of opacity and oracular silence, masking is metaphorically applied in the cartoons to show the apparent disconnect between the ruling class and the masses. A connotative reading of the verbal and visual messages employed in the cartoons constructs images that portray political leaders in Nigeria as people who are secretive, deceptive, indifferent, and lacking in empathy. While a comparative view of fashion styles is used to humorously anchor the message and satire in Opaque Style, in Oracle on Lockdown, these are expressed through the use of the oracular practice.