Cynical Humorous Discourse at Contemporaneity: Historical Perspective and a Rhetorical Discourse Analysis

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https://doi.org/10.17058/psiunisc.v3i2.12520

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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.

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Author Biographies

Mateus Pranzetti Paul Gruda, Doutor em Psicologia - UNESP/Assis Pós-Doutorando - UNESP/Assis

Bacharel, Mestre (bolsista Capes), Doutor (bolsista Fapesp) e Pós-doutorando (bolsista CAPES) em Psicologia pela UNESP/Assis


Pesquisador Estagiário no Centre for Comedy Studies Research da Brunel University London – Bolsa de Doutorado Sanduíche da CAPES

José Sterza Justo, Livre-Docente - UNESP/Assis

Doutor em Psicologia pela PUC-SP, Livre-Docente pela UNESP-Assis, professor aposentado do Departamento de Psicologia Social e Educacional da UNESP-Assis.

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Published

2019-07-19

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Gruda, M. P. P., & Justo, J. S. (2019). Cynical Humorous Discourse at Contemporaneity: Historical Perspective and a Rhetorical Discourse Analysis. PSI UNISC, 3(2), 172-182. https://doi.org/10.17058/psiunisc.v3i2.12520