Date of Award
1-1-2023
Thesis Type
masters
Document Type
Thesis (Restricted Access)
Divisions
language
Department
Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics
Institution
Universiti Malaya
Abstract
Memes are described as cognitive as well as digital artifacts (Wiggins & Bowers, 2014). Memes are a mixture of graphic, textual resources, and references to imitate existing humorous issues (Szablewicz, 2014). In contrast, recombination in language can take place structurally without regard to functional units which can demolish the result semantically including the “sense” of an element and the whole “meaning” of an object (Marion, 2007). This article analyzed the relations between text and image and the type of sentence functions used in memes by applying the framework of Cognitive Semantics (Langacker, 2010) and the framework of Text-Image relation (Bateman, 2014). Data were collected from the Google search engine by employing the purposive sampling method. The collected data were used to identify the sentence functions and relations of image and text in memes. There are massive types of memes on the internet, thus, this article focused on a specific theme: Monday Blues. 50 memes were taken as samples to carry out the qualitative method of content analysis.
Note
Dissertation (M.A.) – Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, 2023.
Recommended Citation
Siti Farhanah, Jake Mohamed, "Text-image relations and sentence functions in Monday Blues Memes / Siti Farhanah Jake Mohamed" (2023). Student Works (2020-2029). 1389.
https://knova.um.edu.my/student_works_2020s/1389