Análisis comparativo de Irlanda y Grecia: de la crisis a la actualidad

El trabajo porta sobre el análisis de la comparativa entre Irlanda y Grecia. Dos países con un punto de partida similar ya que ambos formaban parte de los llamados PIIGS y que actualmente se encuentran en una situación diametralmente opuesta.

Aportación a la numismática de las taifas

El periodo de los reinos de taifas andalusíes sigue aportando novedades numismáticas de gran interés. En el presente artículo damos a conocer tres fracciones de dinar de época taifa que presentan variantes en la disposición de las leyendas no conocidas hasta el momento: una a nombre de ʻAli Iqbāl al-Dawla de Denia, otra de Muqātil Sayf al-Milla de Tortosa, y la última de Calatayud a nombre de Muḥammad ʻAḏid al-Dawla. Estas piezas fueron halladas formando parte de un tesorillo exhumado en el transcurso de una excavación arqueológica de un solar en la calle Jabonerías de Murcia.

Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger

The aim of this research paper is to analyse the key political posters made for the campaigns of Irish political party Fianna Fáil framed in the Celtic Tiger (1997-2008) and post-Celtic Tiger years (2009-2012). I will then focus on the four posters of the candidate in the elections that took place in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2011 with the intention of observing first how the leader is represented, and later on pinpointing the similarities and possible differences between each. This is important in order to observe the main linguistic and visual strategies used to persuade the audience to vote that party and to highlight the power of the politician. Critical discourse analysis tools will be helpful to identify the main discursive strategies employed to persuade the Irish population to vote in a certain direction. Van Leeuwen’s (2008) social actor theory will facilitate the understanding of how participants are represented in the corpus under analysis. Finally, the main tools of Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar (2006) will be applied for the analysis of the images. The study reveals that politicians are represented in a consistently positive way, with status and formal appearance so that people are persuaded to vote for the party they represent because they trust them as political leaders. The study, thus, points out that the poster is a powerful tool used in election campaigns to highlight the power of political parties.