Porta dos Fundos: um estudo ecológico-cognitivo do humor à beira do caos

Abstract

This research seeks to investigate the humor of sketches of the comedy collective who go by the name of Porta dos Fundos (Back Door). Thus, its main objective is to verify the cognitive and linguistic strategies (verbal and nonverbal) used in the production of this audiovisual material that makes its viewers laugh. For so, this study uses the categories of analysis frames (FILLMORE, 1982; LAKOFF, 2012, 2014; DUQUE, 2017) and language games (WITTGENSTEIN, 2012; STEELS, 2006, 2011; DUQUE, 2016; no prelo), in a complex and adaptive perspective (RZEVISK, 2011; DUQUE, 2017). Furthermore, it is supported by the ecological-cognitive approach of language (DUQUE, 2016, 2017, 2018) which is an aspect of Cognitive Linguistics whose initial state is the organism-environment relationship (GIBSON, 2015). This work follows the interpretative paradigm of research and, in doing so, opts for the qualitative approach since its interest lies in understanding and interpreting the semiosis of human relations (GERHARDT ET AL, 2009). Examinations performed suggest that language games in the sketches are guided by extremely dynamic cognitive structures that, due to their fluidity and dynamics, suffer turbulence with the insertion of new information in any of the components of the complex and adaptive system. Such turbulences would be linked, therefore, to several behaviors of the viewer, not restricted to humor only.