Ambiguidade lexical em tirinhas: análise de itens lexicais causadores de multiplicidade de sentido

Abstract

This paper analyses lexical ambiguity occurrence in comic texts and describes the different meanings from lexical items that generates ambiguity, and identify each case as occurrence homonymy or polysemy. According to Trindade (2014), in the homonymy, the different meaning words have no relationship, and in polysemy, it is possible to realize the relationship between different meanings even from lexical item. The development of this paper started from referential theoretical readings, discussing lexical ambiguity and phenomenon include on her. Then, we have contextualized gender text studied, the analyzed and discussed of the selected comics classifying the cases ambiguity and lexical items as homonymy or polysemy. Our analysis material sourced from Folha Online, free access periodic, where daily many comics are published. The analyzed material was collected daily, in the period of a month, and early criterion selection was based in appearance or not of ambiguity as resource to humour effect. The result pointed out that comic’s narrative context and all resource that characterized the production of gender favour the use polysemy as humour resource, and that phenomenon found in a basic structural level is an important element from construction global coherence of comics wherein employed