Abstract Depending on context: to depict soaring prices as fires is to perform the act of complaining; to portray the perpetrator of a sex crime as a wolf is to accomplish the action of condemning; to draw the ship of state sailing toward catastrophe is simultaneously to perform the action of warning and to issue a prediction; etc. It follows that, if political cartooning is action, then having a cartoon spiked is failure to act. The discussion of silenced speech acts cannot fail to have already been noticed by other scholars. Yet, so far little attention has been paid to this phenomenon, especially in multimodal and intercultural pragmatics. Apart from substantiating the claim that it makes sense to study speech acts in political cartoons, this article investigates the situational factors that may affect the editorial decision-making of a given newspaper. Using a corpus of selected American, British, Egyptian, and Jordanian cartoons, it is argued that the appropriateness conditions of (verbo) visual speech acts (and of discourse generally) depend on the context models of the participants (cartoonists/viewers).

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如何处理图像：编辑，漫画家和读者

摘要视情况而定：将高涨的价格描绘成大火是为了进行抱怨。将性犯罪的肇事者描绘成狼是为了完成谴责的行动；将国家航行的船舶拉向灾难，是同时进行预警和发布预测；随之而来的是，如果政治上的漫画化是行动，那么加进动画片便是行动失败。沉默的言语行为的讨论一定会引起其他学者的注意。但是，到目前为止，对这种现象的关注很少，特别是在多式联运和跨文化的语用学中。除了证实声称研究政治漫画中的言语行为有意义之外，本文研究了可能影响给定报纸编辑决策的情况因素。有人使用精选的美国，英国，埃及和约旦的卡通语料，认为（言语）视觉言语行为（以及一般话语）的适当性条件取决于参与者（卡通主义者/观看者）的情境模型。