Relevância, incongruência e humor: uma análise pragmática da pregação do Pastor Cláudio Duarte

Abstract

The field of religion tends to be characterized by the tone of seriousness and not of humor. Emphasizing the function and relevance of humor in a religious social practice, the case of preaching, which deals with issues related to the sacred and, therefore, considered serious, was the main motivation for the realization of this dissertation. Fur-thermore, for that matter, this research aims to investigate the communicative/interpre-tive humorous path in the pastor Cláudio Duarte’s religious discourse, a media phe-nomenon on the Internet. The theoretical frameworks that underlie this study are: the Relevance Theory (RT) by Sperber and Wilson (1995) and the Santos' humor studies (2009, 2014). Other authors who will be mentioned in this study are: Raskin (1985), Attardo and Raskin (1991), Possenti (1998), Bergson (2004), Muniz (2004), Dascal (2006), Andrade (2017), Freitas (2017) and Lima (2019). The analyses of the tran-scribed excerpts allowed to verify some strategies of humor production used in a more recurrent way, such as humorous texts, ad hoc jokes and the narrated jokes during Duarte's preaching in the religious context, a resource that is not used unpretentiously; in fact, it constitutes a resource that contributes efficiently for the pastor’s humorous discourse in order to produce laughter, ostension and achieve the accession of the auditorium.