Ideological Representations of Pak- India Relations in Political Cartoons of Post 9/11 Print Media of Pakistan.

The paper critically examines the ideological representations of Pak-India relations in post 9/11 scenario with reference to political cartoons published in Pakistani Urdu and English newspapers. The linguistic and semiotic analyses contend that the discourse(s) of the political cartoons are ideologically loaded and are employed in the construction and deconstruction of the realities of post 9/11 scenario in a desired way. The research uses multimodal critical discourse approach (Machin, 2007) along with Van Leeuwen's framework for recontextualisation (2008) and Fairclough's (2003) framework for visual and linguistic analyses of the political cartoons to explore the hidden ideologies. The visual and linguistic analyses of the political cartoons pay careful attention to how discourses are chosen and then represented visually and linguistically to promote particular interests and ideologies that shape public perception of the reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]