You could've fooled me! Fallacies as laughing production mechanism

Authors

  • Ana Cristina Carmelino Universidade Federal de São Paulo
  • Luiz Antonio Ferreira Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v42i73.7998

Keywords:

Fallacy. Argumentation. Humor. MAD.

Abstract

In the persuasion process they are involved different types of arguments. There are those who seem convincing for the most part of the audience, but are fallacious, false reasoning products, which only simulate the truth of a fact, event or opinion. Knowing types of fallacies is relevant to avoid traps in the logical argumentative process and to analyze other people's arguments. This article aims to address these arguments in order to reveal another function performed by them in the art of reasoning: to produce humor. For this, we seek to demonstrate how diferente humorous texts are used fallacies to provoke laughter. The analysis corpus consists of examples taken from the printed editions in 2015 of Brazilian version of MAD magazine, a journal of humor published in the country since 1974. The theoretical framework underlying the analysis comes from the Rhetoric and Logic.

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Author Biographies

Ana Cristina Carmelino, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Doutora em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa pela UNESP/CAr. Pós-Doutora pela Unicamp (IEL). Professora Adjunta IV do Departamento de Letras da Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PPGEL) da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Luiz Antonio Ferreira, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)

Professor titular da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)

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Published

2017-02-10

How to Cite

Carmelino, A. C., & Ferreira, L. A. (2017). You could’ve fooled me! Fallacies as laughing production mechanism. Signo, 42(73), 98-109. https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v42i73.7998

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 73 (2017)

Section

vol. 42, nº 73 – Linguagem e Argumentação

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