A OPINIÃO NO RISO: UMA ANÁLISE DA INTERTEXTUALIDADE NA CONSTRUÇÃO DA SIGNIFICAÇÃO DE CHARGES NA IMPRENSA PARAIBANA

Abstract

Considered a phenomenon of high complexity in human being s life, the meaning process is still one of the biggest challenges pursued by studious from both language and communication areas. Situated in the intercrossing of these two theoretical sources, this work turns to an analysis concerning the construction process of meanings of journalistic cartoons, with the purpose of verifying the contribution of intertextuality to this dynamic process, in the scope of Paraíba press. For this intent, the research turned to the analysis of the cartoons published in Correio da Paraíba and Jornal da Paraíba, from July to October of 2005, period registered as one of the most significant historical pages of Brazilian politics life during the last decades. Based on an interdisciplinary perspective, this work has as main theoretical support the dialogue theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, also using some theoretical principles from Linguistics, mainly from Textual Linguistics, Speech Analysis and Semiotics. In what concerns to the nature of this work, it is about a qualitative research, on a documentary character, which was developed from the collected material, through which both descriptive analyses and data interpretation had been carried through. Amongst the conclusions, it was evidenced that intertextuality is one of the main phenomena which are responsible for the construction of meaning of cartoons in Paraíba newspapers, ando also that this reality is processed through many different intertextual strategies involving both the cartoon and a series of intertexts with whom it is related within and without the newspaper. We also observed that the interaction process between enunciator and enunciated of the cartooned text is strongly tied to this intertextual and essentially dialogical chaining.