The Visual Rhetoric of Official Images and Caricatures in Raising Corruption Issues

Abstract

Abstract

Visual rhetoric represents an art of communication that is rich and influential to the recipient of the speech in a way that draws attention and contemplation in a diligent manner. Thus, the research is entitled (visual rhetoric of official images and caricatures in raising issues of corruption). Perhaps one of the most important findings concluded is that: the official royal speech - with its strong deterrent words - had a broad and strong resonance in combating and eliminating corruption. Graphic and creative arts were employed through lines, colors, shapes, shadows, and linguistic expressions in visual images that revealed aspects of corruption and its impact on society. The metaphor had its radiance in depicting the meanings underlying it which depicted the ways of corruption in all its forms and manifestations. Fine art draws metaphorical relationships in the form of shapes, colors, and symbols that reveal the ugliness of corruption and its obstruction of development and achievement. The linguistic icon cooperates with the drawings as a specific means of interpreting the meanings eminating from symbols and gestures.

Keywords: visual rhetoric, cartoon, corruption issues, official images, symbol and gesture.