A ambiguidade e o texto de humor: uma análise do gênero tirinha em propostas didáticas

Abstract

The present study will show that who use a textual genre in the elaboration of an activity, teachers, for example, lose the opportunity to explore texts which are rich in linguistic resources and semantic phenomena, making use of texts as a pretext for studying grammar normative, approaching it only in a metalinguistic way. We did an in - depth research on the four textbooks belonging to one of the most studied authors in Brazilian schools, William Cereja who, together with Thereza Cochar, produced the collection "Portuguese Linguagens", in order to verify how the treatment of a semantic phenomenon - ambiguity, in this case - in a multimodal genre very present in textbooks: the tirinha. Using Koch's (2004) conceptions about what text is and Marcuschi (2008) giving us a base on textual type, textual genre, support and discursive domain, we made a quantitative survey about the multimodal genres present in the object of analysis and, according to with the conception of semantics addressed by Ilari and Geraldi (2004), we cut our corpus of analysis, composed of eight activities present in such collection, in which four of them explore the ambiguity present in the comic strip in the activity and other four do not. Throughout this research, we seek not to give a single objective, but to lead the reader to reflections about the knowledge needed to explore more than one LD, since this is a mandatory material, but never totally satisfactory, as well as allowing those who read to perceive that it is necessary to explore the tirinha both in the didactic material in use and in the elaboration of extra questions, being a genre constituted of many verbal and nonverbal linguistic resources.