Cynical Humorous Discourse at Contemporaneity: Historical Perspective and a Rhetorical Discourse Analysis
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Humour, Cynicism, Contemporaneity, Rhetorical discourse analysis.Abstract
On the last decades, humorous discourse and its several mechanisms of operation – such as: irony, parody, mockery – has been spread within distinctive social and discursive practices (advertising, politics, fashion, education, among many others) becoming increasingly important as a form of mediating the relationships among subjects and between subjects and the world. Cynicism is another aspect relevant on the contemporary world, which through a cynical rationality produces two associated process: general ironization of the conducts and defence of immoral acts through moralist arguments. This essay connects both points in a particular way of operating within a general humour: the cynical humour. Hence, outlining the parts of the text, it contains: (1) initial commentaries about the idea of language shaped as discourse; the dialectical aspects of humour; and some explanation regarding the three stages scheme of rhetorical analysis discourse proposed by Simon Weaver; (2) a reasonably huge review about ideas of cynicism propagated in ancient Greece (kynismus) and in the contemporaneity (contemporary cynicism); (3) a relation of those ideas with the cynical humour, mainly related to those processes produced by a cynical rationality; (4) and finally, a Brazilian cynical humour example is analysed according to the methodological approach mentioned.Downloads
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