nderlying conceptions of teaching the mother tongue through comic stris with the character Mafalda

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the concepts of language and teaching present in the genre of humor comic strips, with the character Mafalda, by cartoonist Quino. The gender in study can be considered from the humorous sphere, so the strategy for construction of humor in the selected corpus just happens for reinforcing a conception of language and teaching somewhat distant from that of the alleged potential readers. This study consists of a literature search of analytical and descriptive nature. As theoretical support, was based on Bakhtin (1997), Marcuschi (2002), Bunzen; Mendonça (2013), Kleiman (2009), Pérez; García (2001), Bronckart (1999), Vasconcelos (1992), among others. The research corpus had as object of analysis four strips by the Argentine cartoonist Quino. We found that the concept of mother language teaching underlying the analyzed text is based, mainly, on the basis of a more structuralist and formal perspective given that the language is presented, often, as code, restricted to a set of signs.