Processos referenciais na construção do humor: um estudo do programa Choque de Cultura

Abstract

The uses of referential processes bring different meanings to communicative interactions according to the knowledge previously acquired by the interlocutors. Considering this, we seek to understand the applications of referencing as a meaning effect on the promotions of humor in oral situations. This allows a better understanding of the reception strategies of linguistic uses. Furthermore, working with referential process provides a broader understanding of language, a review of the relationship between pragmatics and cognition, a closer look at the semantic function of language, and revisiting the concepts of language, reference, inference, and coherence. The corpus selected was the humorous show Choque de Cultura, available online on the YouTube platform. Because of the extensive number of episodes, we selected three and one more video from another YouTube channel, which featured the special participation of the four main characters, totaling four videos for corpus of this work. As analysis procedures, we performed the orthographic transcription of the four elected videos and, subsequently, the selection of excerpts from each program that were relevant for the analysis of referencing in humorous situations. The main results indicate the frequent identical lexical repetition and the use of elements that mobilize the socio-cognitive context and the discursive memory of the participants in moments of humor, less frequently, the use of labeling is observed.