Comic ethos: the rhetorical secret of Gilmore girls

• Grant number: 19/22318-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2020
• End date: June 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Ana Cristina Carmelino
• Grantee: Silvia Nunes
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Nowadays, TV shows are standing out and taking up significant time from people's lives. However, cientific studies that seek to reflect on the role or success of this phenomenon as an entertainment, in linguistics, are pretty limited. Based on these considerations, this project aims to analyze the constitution of the comic ethos of the character Lorelai Gilmore, considering the first season of Gilmore Girls (produced in 2000), in order to check ir there's a relation between this image and the series' repercution. For this matter, the study is specially based on the Rhetorical (ARISTOTLE, 2015, 1991) and New Rhetorical (PERELMAN; OLBRECHTS-TYTECA, 1996; REBOUL, 2004; MEYER, 2007; FERREIRA, 2010) theoretical assumptions, along with assumptions from specialists that deal with the comic types (MENDES, 2008; FRYE, 2013).