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Some Critical Reflections About Politically Incorrect Humour at Contemporaneity
Mateus Pranzetti Paul Gruda
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2015.08.005
UNESP—Univ Estadual Paulista, Assis, Brazil
Humour discourse and its
mechanisms of working has been constantly presented within several instances of
quotidian life nowadays (pedagogical methods should be fun, most of the
advertising invests in a humorous approach, political manifestations should have
good humour involved, amidst many others) and in the last decades the so-called
“politically incorrect humour” gained featured and has generated numerous
discussions about it, such as: the limits or restrictions that humour should
have to follow; what could be considered humorous or not; and the conflicts
between that type of humour and the political correctness, which can be
comprehend both as a extreme policy of language, thoughts and behaviours or as
something necessary to proceed a normalisation on the public sphere. From these
questions, I sought to reflect what politically incorrect humour is about and
its dialectical possibilities of producing meanings and ability of reinforcing
or attacking the current order. Once humour is composed by contradictions (can
be at the same time: universal and particular, reactionary and revolutionary,
etc.), I present the politically incorrect humour torn between two poles
(critical and uncritical) formalising common features and consequences of both
possibilities to think critically about how politically incorrect humour can
impact into the mode we subjectify and relate
with the others and the world.
humour, discourse, contemporaneity, political incorrectness, political correctness, critical social psychology
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