“Para bom entendedor, meia palavra basta.”: recursos linguístico-discursivos na construção do humor nas tirinhas de André Dahmer

Abstract

The work proposes to qualitatively analyze the lexical-grammatical choices – along with the non-verbal signs, in a semantic-discursive perspective – used by the comic artist André Dahmer when he intended to create humour. It starts with the idea that humour is linguistic and discursive. The objective is to show that the semantic aspects and the implicitness (linguistic or not) are especially revealing elements of the discourse defended in the comics, and to perceive the linguistic-discursive games arising from the choices for one or another semantic instrument. For the discourse analysis, the predominant theoretical framework adopted was the Semiolinguistic Analysis of Discourse, which has as referenced, the theories proposed, above all, by Patrick Charaudeau, in addition to contributions from Norman Fairclough, theorist of Critical Discourse Analysis. Regarding humour, Charaudeau (2006) was also used for the discursive scope and Sírio Possenti and Paulo Ramos for the linguistic aspects. Grammarians and linguists contributed to the theoretical apparatus concerning linguistic-semantic aspects.