Impact of Number and Type of Figures’ Identification on Accessing Caricatures’ Meaning

Abstract

The present paper is part of an MA thesis; it aims at quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing the objective of the study which reads: examining the impact of the number and type (strip or comprehensive) of figures’ identification on accessing caricatures’ meaning. The first part of the objective is quantitatively analyzed using EXCEL software whereas the second part of the objective is analyzed qualitatively using Tolman’s Theory of MENTAL MAPS (1948). The study ends up with a number of results, such as the percentages of comprehensive thinking or identification are higher than that of the strip way of identification. As a result, the study concludes that there are many factors that affect image reading where both the number of the figures identified and type of thinking are cases in point. However, it has been noticed that the full identification of figures is important, but what is more important is to know which of these figures need to be comprehensively conceptualized, and the sequence by which such figures are mapped and linked.