Stereotypes in jokes about baiano

Author(s)

Alan Lobo de Souza

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2013-12-04

Examining board members

Sírio Possenti; Emilio Gozze Pagotto; Ana Cristina Carmelino

• Advisor: Sírio Possenti

Abstract

The idea of stereotype summarizes, in different theoretical perspectives, the characterization of an idée recue, a commonplace, consolidated representations in the society, in collective imaginary. When dealing about jokes, this symbolical space of meanings needs to be approached thoroughly, so that be possible to describe the discursive functioning involved in the construction of certain representations in a joke, that means, we can't despise socio historical determinations that defines the collective imaginary. A decision that imposes the following question: what are the historical conditions of production that enables that a specific group be an object of laughter from specific stereotypes (and not others)? In this work we will turn attention to a group of jokes about baiano selected, largely, in sites from internet or even in humor books like Pimentel (2009). In other words, we propose to investigate the connections that determined stereotypes representations associated to baiano keep on History. When adopted Maingueneau's perspective (2008a, 2008b), that emphasizes the primacy of a interdiscourse about speech, the aim of this search is not limited to the humorous discourse, but to the group of discourses expressed in the act of discursive functioning of humor in jokes about baianos. The main objective of this work is to analyze the way how these texts are related and still often establishing representations seen like current truth (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/02091-8 - Stereotypes in jokes about baiano
• Grantee: Alan Lôbo de Souza
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master