Text-image relations and sentence functions in Monday Blues Memes / Siti Farhanah Jake Mohamed

• Main Author: Siti Farhanah, Jake Mohamed
• Format: Thesis
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15325/1/Siti_Farhanah.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15325/2/Siti_Farhanah.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15325/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

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.