O papel do estereótipo na constituição do gênero piada: uma abordagem sociocognitiva

Abstract

Our study lies over the process o linguistic signification, thinking it on base of the negation o the Hypothesis of the Strong Compositionality and the affirmation of the dynamic projective and multidirectional nature of o socio-cognitive ways of signification. More precisely, our work agenda objectives to describe the metonymic processes of constitution of social stereotypes, focused as characters on the textual gender “joke” an verify in which measure those constructions institute a prototype pattern on the compositional structure of that gender. We assume the perspective of the Cognitive Linguistic, on the terms of Lakoff, Johnson, Faucconier, Turner (cf cap 2), that, giving a cognitive status to the stereotypes, take them as metonymic models, on which a subcategory has a status social and culturally recognized as a pattern for the category as a hole. Having collected a significant corpus of jokes, we found those characters configured as entrench conceptual frames and, making use of the theory of the conceptual Integration, or Blending, we verified its role on the process of joke signification. For that, we retake the theoretical constructs of the socio-cognitive program which are, the processes of conceptualization an categorization, the projective power of the human mind and pf the language, referenced from the Conceptual Theory of the Metaphor and, in special, of Metonymy, and the Conceptual Integration Networks or Blending, as theorist foundation for our hypotheses. Still taking, as analytic resource, the Model Based on Use, that aims the analyses of the frequency of types that appear on jokes an the frequency of use of them, relating those data, respectively, with the strength of conventionalization and productivity of each stereotyped construction. The results of our analyses represents an evidence favoring the socio-cognitive theses of language on the concern to the principle of relevance of all kind of human experience (physical, social, cultural, international) on the constitution of thinking and language.