The image of the first female president of the republic of Korea Park Geun-hye in political caricatures
The article considers the political caricature as a creolized text, consisting of verbal and nonverbal (iconic) parts creating a single semantic whole, and also learning background knowledge (presuppositions) about the problem of Park Geun-Hye’s reign as the first female president in the history of South Korea from 2013 until 2017, which are necessary for the interpretation of the images. The main objects in the caricature are the representatives of political power, or something that has long lost the confidence of the people. The aim of the study is to identify the image of the first female president of the Republic of Korea Park Geun-Hye in English-language political caricatures. The material for the study consists of 10 English-speaking political cartoons website of the Korea Joongang Daily. The method of analysis of cartoons as a creolized text is based on an approximate scheme of the analysis of such texts include the following stages: 1) definition of text static or dynamic; 2) determination of the degree of creolization of the text; 3) a description of the types of correlation between the components of a creolized text; 4) description of the caricature certain background knowledge - presuppositions; 5) description of the language and graphic (paralinguistically) funds. The result of this work highlighted the characteristic features of the image of the leader of South Korea.