PORTA DOS FUNDOS: AN ECOLOGICAL-COGNTIVE STUDY OF THE HUMOR ON THE BRINK OF CHAOS
This research aims to investigate the humor of the skits by Porta dos Fundos. Thus, its main objective is to verify cognitivea and linguistic strategies (verbal and nonverbal) used in the production of this audiovisual material that provide laughter for their viewers. For doing so, this study uses the categories of analysis frames (FILLMORE, 1982; LAKOFF, 2012, 2014; DUQUE, 2017), and language games (WITTGENSTEIN, 2012; STEELS, 2012; DUQUE, 2016; 2019), in a complex and adaptative perspective (RZEVISK, 2011; DUQUE, 2017). This research is also supported by the ecological approach to language and cognition, a strand of Cognitive Linguistics whose initial condition is the organismo-environment relationship (GIBSON, 2015). Aditionally, this work is based on the interpretative paradigm of research, thus, it adopts the qualitative approach, since its interest is the understanding and interpretation of the human relations semiosis (MINAYO, 2009). The analyzes performed so far suggest that the situations presented by the skits emerge from cognitive patterns which face turbulences, due to the inclusion of new information into situations already known by the participants. It seems that the feeling of humor emerges from these turbulences.