Estudo das estratégias lingüístico-discursivas do risível em Porque Lulu Bergantim não atravessou o Rubicon de José Cândido de Carvalho

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is the study of the linguistic-discursive strategies of the laughable in Porque Lulu Bergatim não atravessou o Rubicon of José Cândido de Carvalho. The author s work presents dozens of curious stories on the interior of the country. Written in a very characteristic way, the narratives introduce funny personages involved in unusual situations. The author's style is marked, mainly, by the use of the comic exaggeration employed in ironies and metaphors. The present study included the analysis of stories, their connection with the laughter and the brevity inherent to both. In the present work the manifestation of the laughter was analyzed considering the concepts discussed by the philosophers and theoretical from the Antiquity to the current days. In the study it was verified that in the last centuries the comedian was own of the inferior classes, lowered, with addictions and faults. Starting from the century XX the laughter began to have value in the social relationships. In the contemporary theories, the laughter exists to correct habits, to punish behaviors and to punish distracted, and it can be expressed in four ways: in the forms and movements, in the situations, in the words and in the character. The corpus was divided considering these four categories. The analysis of the linguistic-discursive strategies of the laughter detached the polissemic exploration happened in the stories not only by the use of the metaphors and of the ironies, but also by the use of slangs, of alliterations, of hyperboles, of puns, of strange names and of neologisms