COMICS AS MEANS OF EXPRESSING ETHNOCULTURAL STEREOTYPES

Abstract

This paper deals with the interaction of verbal and non-verbal components of the comics book and focuses on the analysis of linguistic means used by the authors to transmit their ideologic conception and to achieve comic and parody effect. Research reveals that there are no main and secondary means, their choice depends on the author’s intention, his/her wish to transmit the certain effect and express sentiments to described situations. The set of means lets realize informative, expressive, aesthetic functions.

Keywords

• comics, creolized text, ethnocultural stereotype, linguistic means