O riso e o discurso político: contribuições de Foucault para o estudo do riso como materialidade discursiva

Abstract

In this study, we examine the laughter in the light of the studies of the French side of Discourse Analysis, with recurrence of Michel Foucault. Mobilized, in particular the notion of utterance and power relations from the political discourse. To this end, we take the statement as discursive materiality, allowing effects of meaning in an enunciative situation involving subjects interacting in a given socio-historical moment. Laughter, and statement raises interpretations, has a sense of purpose in interaction situations, presents materiality, has several functions and exercising powers. also resorted to studies which take the historical aspect of laughter, outlining some of its functions. Selected for this work excerpts from the interview Dilma Rousseff granted to journalists of Jornal Nacional, broadcast on 18 August of two thousand and fourteen and also stretches the presidential debate for the 2nd round of elections, organized by Bandeirantes TV and was the air on the fourteenth day of October 2014. the corpus analyzed the many laughs that emerged, the effects of meaning and their role in the expository scene, in order to meet the need of studying the nonverbal language, contributing to the enhancement of interpretation of multimodal text or which have exclusively semiotic materiality.