A construção lingüístico-discursiva do humor político na imprensa escrita: o caso Severino Cavalcanti

Abstract

The current paper has as the main purpose to analyze the political humor linguistic-discoursing construction in written media. The corpus analysis is built with texts from the recognized newspaper, not only in São Paulo but also in Brazil: Folha de S. Paulo. In this analysis the main subject is the personal performance of ex-federal deputy Severino da Silva in his public career. We believe that such humoristic texts can drive us towards admirable experiments concerning the language questions and the humor, as discursive phenomena, translate an opinion maker characteristic trait. The theoretical statement is based on the concepts of humor introduced and debated, mainly, by Bergson (2004), Propp (1992), Alberti (2002), Minois (2003), Raskin (1985), Possenti (2000) and Travaglia (1990). First of all, we proceeded with context structure of the corpus and a brief description of political career of Severino Cavalcanti. We moved forward with a historical retrospective, looking for to explorer how the humor was explained by several thinkers and academics. We were able to evidence the sociological and political aspects of humor. Considering that we left clear the weapons linguistic-discursive used in order to build the essence of humor. Finally, after the corpus analysis, we realized that the humor itself can reveal the truths and punish those ones who audacity to deviate from used society convivial