Tiras cômicas nas aulas de língua portuguesa: possibilidades discursivas para além das atividades propostas no livro didático

Abstract

This study aimed to bring to the classroom Portuguese Language a research proposal of the mechanisms that cause the humor in comic strips, exploring thus discursive potential of this kind. As a theoretical foundation, we have adopted Bakhtin's vision of the dialogic nature of language and its definition of genres – especially the chapter Discursive Genres Aesthetics of Verbal Creation (Bakhtin, 2011); studies of Possenti (1998, 2013) on mood; studies of Cagnin (2014), Acevedo (1990), Ramos (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) and Vergueiro (2012a, 2012b, 2013) on the language of comics, as well as studies of Dolz & Schneuwly (2004) about the production of didactic sequences. Therefore, this study was principal methodology action research, since it is proposed to hold a teaching sequence with students from 9th grade of elementary school. Nevertheless, it was used also bibliographic and documentary research, as had the corpus a set of 35 comic strips collected the analyzed textbook. The test results showed the great linguistic and discursive potential of the comic strip, as well as the need to redirect the look and suggest activities beyond the proposals in the textbook.