Gênero, riso e violência: um olhar discursivo para o humor de Danilo Gentili

Abstract

In the last 60 years, gender relations and, mostly, exploration and oppression that constitute such relations, were object of academic studies. In the present master’s thesis, related to materialistic Discourse Analysis, we propose to discuss gender from the discursive perspective in all its socio-historical-ideological relations. We carried out a gender relation cut to work on the oppression between the hegemonic gender, heterosexual cisgender man, and women. We have investigated how humour in discourse is a tool to perpetrate misogyny and what role humour has in the women’s violence. The corpus which is the basis of the research analysis was gathered from YouTube and consists in a video published by Danilo Gentili in 2017. This video is a response to an extra-judicial action requested by deputy Maria do Rosario at the Parliamentary Prosecutor. The humourist is condemned for insult against the deputy in 2019. We comprehend that the link between violence and humour can produce gender violence propagation because, under humour discourse evidence, violence works as a joke, which marks a gap between humour production, the humourist identity and the one who laughs, so the violence is soften which guarantees its propagation. The analytical tool built for the corpus analysis is elaborated in a way that the non-linguistic elements used in the video (images, voice, gestures, prosody) could be also considered once those non-linguistic elements in use with linguistic elements build sense in the analysed discourse. Humour is identified in the corpus mostly by the undock between what is produced in the enunciation linearity level and what is introduced by gestures, intonation, and musical elements insertion.