Constituição do ethos da pessoa surda: uma análise linguística de piadas

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Heloísa Helena Vallim de
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/717
• topic: Retórica; Ethos; Humor; Piada; Surdez; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

From an analysis of jokes about deaf people, told or not by another deaf, this study tries to reflect about the Ethos constitution of the deaf person. The purpose of this work is dued to the fact of observations we made about jokes, told by deafs, the evidenced humor is related to the mentioned deafness itself, which is always in evidence either by the human character or by an animal or other beings. Thus, the course of this investigation, is oriented from the questioning raised about the reasons why this occurs: which dominant representation the listener person has about the deaf person? Does the listener have a power relation concerning the deaf? Is there a look of an inferior being because of a damaged body? Which is the representation approach that listeners made about the deaf person? Is it because they are held as inferior people that deafs try to report their impairment in jokes? To found the analysis of our corpus, we based on the theoretical presuppositions of the aristotelic rhetorical - from the considerations made especially by Amossy (2005), Meyer (2007) and Goffman (2008), as well as the considerations about humor made by Bergson (1987), Travaglia (1989), Possenti (1998) and Propp (1992), who reflect not only about the linguistic resources involved in the construction of humor, but also about the different functions of it. For our purposes the jokes lead to interesting revelations in the realm of rhetorical, because, undoubtly, carry a learning sense in the microstructure and large meanings in the macrostructure field, rhetorical and semantic. The jokes about deafs mobilized polemic discourses that work with stereotypes (as we have seen, is related to prejudice), resume discourses profoundly rooted that infiltrates in the linguistic techniques and carry discourses that would be forbidden in the official and institutional discourses. In this sense, jokes are free to circulate in the society. Free from the control of the discourse procedures, mainly, that of the forbidden word, the joke shows a very clear representation of the ethos that we searched: the laughable hides the social grotesque from, inevitably, establish the difference as a defect not possible to be hidden.