Cartoons with intolerant contours: a discursive analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Tamiris Machado
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/36255
• topic: Bakhtin Circle; Intolerant speech; Sense construction; Journalistic cartoon; Círculo de Bakhtin; Discurso intolerante; Construção de sentidos; Charge jornalística

Cartoons are a critical speech genre, in the sense that they are one’s assessment about social themes in which one is circumscribed. Therefore, cartoons may reverberate many sense effects, such as humor, irony and affront, enabling an analysis of language in use. This article’s objective is to comprehend the constitutive elements of a cartoon by Roque Sponholz, published in 2011, via Brazilian digital media. It is aimed to understand which features that lead to the construction of intolerant senses are mobilized in this act; as well as which dialogical threads are necessary for a cartoon to be considered as having intolerant contours. To this end, the article resorts to the discursive theoretical-methodological perspective, especially that postulated by the Bakhtin Circle. The analysis indicates that the cartoon in question turns to intolerant social discourses, both moving towards the already-said and projecting response-discourses. By doing so, the architectonics of cartoons assumes intolerant senses as a discursive whole in which values of judgment can be seen.