The role of humorous elements in Cádiz chirigotas in creating/reinforcing a local identity: A relevance-theoretic approach
This paper adopts a relevance-theoretic perspective to analyse how chirigotas –one of the types of bands in Cadiz carnival– exploit a series of verbal and visual comic elements in order to create or reinforce local identity: (i) the names of the bands, (ii) their attire, (iii) gestures and (iv) the...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/108651 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/108651 https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00071.pad |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Humour Cadiz carnival relevance theory |
| Resumo: | This paper adopts a relevance-theoretic perspective to analyse how chirigotas –one of the types of bands in Cadiz carnival– exploit a series of verbal and visual comic elements in order to create or reinforce local identity: (i) the names of the bands, (ii) their attire, (iii) gestures and (iv) the lyrics of their comical songs, which satirise, mock, criticise, ridicule, praise, flatter or censure events or states of affairs. These elements will be argued to make manifest assumptions, activate (private) mental frames or express attitudes about those events or states of affairs, which the audience discover are already manifest to, and shared by, its members. Checking that other people entertain similar assumptions about and/or have similar attitudes towards those events or states of affairs –i.e. the joy of manifestness– will be shown to be essential for generating a feeling of in-group membership on which that of a local identity greatly depends. |
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