Enunciado e enunciação

a construção de sentidos em charges

Abstract

The discourse genre enables a network of construction of meanings, in a complex way, in verbal-visual utterances. The objective of this work is to analyze the effects of meanings that are constructed from the relationship between verbal and non-verbal utterances within the scope of the cartoon genre. The research is inscribed in the perspective of Benveniste's Theory of Enunciation, Pêcheux's French Discursive Analysis, dialoguing with the concepts of discursive formation in Foucault's studies (1997) and Bakhtin's enunciation (2017). The corpus of the analysis is the cartoon by the cartoonist Alberto Benett, published in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, on August 30, 2022, which portrays a statement by the former President of the Republic in relation to hunger in Brazil and the second cartoon, by the cartoonist Miguel Paiva, referring to the speech of the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Luís Roberto Barroso, to bolsonaristas when he was approached during a trip to New York, published on November 15, 2022, in the online newspaper Notícias UOL. This is an exploratory and documentary research of a qualitative nature. The results of the research indicate that, in cartoon one, the discursive formation, thought of as what “determines what can and should be said” (FOUCAULT, 2009), reveals that everything that is said by Bolsonaro has the intention of defending the success of his government, in addition to trying to attract more voters, or at least keep the ones he already has and, in cartoon two, everything that is said by the character in the yellow blouse is intended to indicate the loss of former president Bolsonaro in recent years. Brazilian elections. From the results of the research, it could be concluded that enunciation, enunciation, discursive formation and the verbal, visual and extraverbal elements, from and in the cartoons, build effects of different meaning(s) in their reader(s), depending on the objective(s) of the enunciator(s).