INTERTEXTUALITY IN HUMOR STRIPS: A PERSPECTIVE OF READING IN TEXTBOOKS
Intertextuality. Humor strip. Reading. Textbook.
Intertextuality is a factor of textuality that requires the activation of previous knowledge from the reader’s cultural background, being inherent in the entire reading process, and is implicated in the effects of the meaning of the text. The humor strip is a genre of multimodal nature, belonging to the field of humor it explores a variety of situations and invites the reader to make inferences, to understand the elements implicit in it as well as to establish connections between verbal and non-verbal language. The conciliation of these elements brings the author-text-reader relationship to the heartwood of reading, which does not consider a reading concept based only on the text or the reader, instead, it aggregates the interaction between them. Thereby, our dissertation aims to analyze whether the approach to intertextuality in humor strips contributes to a critical reading. For this purpose, we base our research in the light of Textual Linguistics and the National Curriculum Parameters (Brazil), through authors such as Koch, Bentes e Cavalcante (2012); Koch e Elias (2013); Costa Val (2006); Antunes (2003, 2007, 2009, 2014 ); Brasil (1997,1998). Ramos (2017, 2018) and Vergueiro e Ramos (2015) contributed to the characterization of the humor strip genre, as well as Smith (1993) and Foucambert (1994) were references for the reading approach. Our corpus was delimited in 4 copies of the Portuguese language book from the Conexão e Uso collection for the construction of research elements to 6th to the 9th-grade school year, for we start from the assumption that there are contexts not yet covered in the textbook concerning intertextuality in the humor strip. Therefore, we propose, at the end of our work, an activity notebook, based on situations of intertextuality addressed in the humor genre textbook, and based on a perspective that prioritizes critical reading for elementary school students.