A comicidade no contexto linguístico escolar : quadrinhos de humor em livros didáticos de inglês como língua estrangeira / The comicity in the school linguistic context : comics in the handbooks of English as a foreign language

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2010

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Anchored in the perspective of the Discourse Analysis, in the interface with the Freud?s Psychoanalyze and Deconstruction, our aim, with this study, was to analyze the way of approaching of humor by Handbooks of English as a Foreign Language (FL). This research allowed us to comprehend the way of treatment of humor and the conception of language teaching which emerges from the didactic and pedagogical activities based on comics and from their position (localization) in the handbooks of English selected for this study. The corpus of this research is composed by six Handbooks of English as a FL, adopted by English teachers who work at public schools comprising Campinas and region. Our basic assumption was that, in spite of being composed by many different kinds of texts which belong to different discourses, the Handbooks of English, especially their kind of approaching, have the tendency of becoming the texts homogenous. So, we developed the hypothesis that, in the didactic-pedagogical context of language teaching, more exactly in Handbooks of English as a FL, there is a strong tendency of erasing of the effects of humor and their conditions of production. From the results of our analyses, we could observe that the way how the Handbooks approach humor tend to eliminate the joke, the ambiguity, the double meaning, resulting, consequently, in the erasure of the cultural and discursive aspects which constitute the complex field of the comicity. We consider that the kind of approaching of humor found in the Handbooks of English present serious implications in the learning and teaching of English as a FL and, consequently, in the constitution of the subject?s identity: a) the erasure of creativity, imagination and pleasure; b) the absence of the playful component and, therefore, of the pleasure, of the involvement which every kind of learning involves (that one which spans the body and changes it) should presuppose and, finally, c) the erasure of the political aspects which span the field of comicity. That erasure reinforces the mistaken idea that humor is a simple play which does not demand an intellectual exercise, totally different of the position assumed in this study. The field of the comicity entails social, historical and cultural relations. More specifically, there are subjective and social-historical relations entailed in the production of the pleasure and of the comics poeticity, what makes it an important element for the teaching-learning of a language

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comicity english language comicidade livros didaticos - lingua inglesa histórias em quadrinhos - humor lingua inglesa - ensino discurso didático-pedagógico handbooks of english language comics didactic-pedagogic discourse

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