Polysemy and interdiscursivity in Bruno Drummond’s cartoons: a linguistic-discoursive approach

Abstract

The study presented here makes a linguistic-discursive approach to Bruno Drummond's cartoons. It establishes, initially, a distinction, in the field of graphic humor, between charge, cartoon and caricature. Next, it highlights the characteristics of the cartoon. For the corpus analysis, it employs the concepts of polisemy and interdiscursivity establishing the differences between the latter and the concept of intertextuality. In the theoretical basis of graphic humor, the considerations of Teixeira (2005) and the author under analysis (2007) are prioritized. As regards the interdiscursivity / intertextuality binomial, the studies of Jenny (1979), Dallenbach (1979) and Fiorin (2003) are highlighted. In the approach of polysemy, in comparison with homonymy and synonymy, the works of Borba(1970) and Gonzáles et al.(1989) are valued. Finally, the corpus analysis are supported by the considerations of Charaudeau (2005) regarding the concepts of sign of language and sign of discourse, as well as his observations on discursive inferences.