Tiras cômicas e piadas

The aim of this thesis es to study theorical and practical similarities between comic strips and jokes.The idea is to defend that both of them share similar text strategies to provoke humor effect.The research reveals that there are common characteristics in both genres composition.By the interdisciplinal character of the objects of studywhich involve oral, written and visual verbal elements, -it was necessary to make use of different theorical areas.From Linguistic, we took elements related to the Text Theories, which deal with the sense formation process inside of na interational social-cognitive viewpoint and allow a dialog with other kindred scientific areas, such as the Conversation Analysis, the study of genres, narrative theories and studies abaout images.From the different humor theories, it was extracted components of humoristic text, specially the incongruence principle, which breaks the reader/listener expectance, making humor.The linguistichumoristic ideas are debated in the chapters of Part I.The following part isso dedicated to reading of the Communication area theories which deal with different researches about comics, including the comic strips.Based on a clear concepts of what are jokes and comic strips, as well as what are strategies used by both genres, we went for concepts application in a corpus of 40 strips, being this analysis the third part of the study

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