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Kozin, Alexander V. "On the Cultural Meaning of The New Yorker ‘Lawyer Cartoon’ An Experiment in Ethnography of Communication." International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique 28. (2015): 801–23. Added by: Okwuchi Mba (10/06/2022, 12:46) Last edited by: joachim (10/06/2022, 16:55) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1007/s11196-014-9399-0 BibTeX citation key: Kozin2015 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Cartoon (single panel), Communications, Themes and motives, USA Creators: Kozin Collection: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique |
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This essay concerns itself with the Lawyer cartoon, a thematic subgenre of the “The New Yorker Magazine” cartoon, which focuses on the legal profession in the US context. An examination of the cultural meaning of this phenomenon is carried out on the strength of ethnography of communication, which discloses the cartoon as a cultural, social and rhetorical artifact. Among the findings of this study are the structural components, functions, and the rules of configuring the Lawyer cartoon toward it becoming a matter of “risibility” as well as a matter of cultural symbolism. By presenting the attorney as an abnormal character with excessive and hypocritical characteristics, the Lawyer cartoon points to the ascriptions of a disrupted self, making the profession appear as fundamentally inauthentic.
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