The role of humorous elements in Cádiz chirigotas in creating/reinforcing a local identity

A relevance-theoretic approach

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21180038
AutoresManuel Padilla Cruz (0000-0003-2908-7261, Universidad de Sevilla, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume18
Fascículo1
Páginas136-159
Data de publicação2021-05-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSpanish in Context (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1571-0718 • E-ISSN: 1571-0726
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sic.00071.pad
OpenAlexW3127961115
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas30

This paper adopts a relevance-theoretic perspective to analyse how chirigotas – one of the types of bands in Cádiz carnival – exploit a series of verbal and visual comic elements in order to create or reinforce local identity: (i) the names of the bands, (ii) their attire, (iii) gestures and (iv) the lyrics of their comical songs, which satirise, mock, criticise, ridicule, praise, flatter or censure events or states of affairs. These elements will be argued to make manifest assumptions, activate (private) mental frames or express attitudes about those events or states of affairs, which the audience discover are already manifest to, and shared by, its members. Checking that other people entertain similar assumptions about and/or have similar attitudes towards those events or states of affairs – i.e. the ‘joy of manifestness’ – will be shown to be essential for generating a feeling of in-group membership on which that of a local identity greatly depends

Aesthetics · Art · Feeling · Gesture · Linguistics · Literature · Lyrics · Political science · Praise · Sociology · Visual arts · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology