Résumé:
This dissertation aims to reveal and identify women’s stereotypical
representation in newspapers caricatures in Algerian visual text; Shedding more
light on the caricatures of women used by Algerian cartoonists in newspapers.
Because she is “she,” woman, could not even escape from the pen of the
caricaturists. This research aims to understand the important reasons behind
stereotyping women in general, and in the Algerian newspaper caricatures in
particular. The objective is to show the unacceptable way of describing women’s
roles in the Algerian newspapers.I adopted the Social semiotic approach of
Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) while collecting my samples. I select some
caricatures from images and do the analysis perspective. Basing upon Kress and
Van Leuven’s three metafunctions;representative metafunction,compositional
metafunction and interactive metafunction a total of (11)pictures were randomly
collected from Algerian newspapers in order to collect the required data.After
the analysis of the data gathered from the mentioned tools.Results prove that the
majority of Algerian newspapers represent women as victims of domestic
violence in or out of home,portray them in a stereotypical way reducing their
roles for taking care of thehouse and kids. Even more Females are represented as
subordinate,sex objects.
