Abstract

BUGALLO, Lucía; ZINKGRAF, Constanza  and  PEDRAZZINI, Ana. Propiciar la multimodalidad en niños y adolescentes a través de la producción de humor gráfico. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2020, n.89, pp.115-141. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi89.3796.

This work aims at the contribution of the empirically founded study of multimodality and humor in children and adolescents. It focuses on the creation of cartoons as a multimodal type of discourse, in which various signs -mostly iconic, plastic and linguistic- interact to make meaning and to create a humorous effect. Based on a corpus of 134 cartoons produced by children and adolescents between 10 and 19 years old, we analyzed the ways in which drawing and writing are combined, and we found that the complementarity relation between them is the primary one. This reveals the effort that is put into by the participants to take advantage of the potential of each semiotic mode. We also identified a repertoire of graphic resources deployed (speech balloons, motion lines, captions and labels, as the ones that appear the most), with different degrees of convention and innovation in the use of these resources. In addition, we described a series of strategies that are put into play to produce legible cartoons, while revealing difficulties that are only partially surpassed.

Keywords : cartoon; multimodal articulation; graphic resources; image.

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