Political Humor: the genre viewed from the lens of Corpus Linguistics

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https://doi.org/10.34096/sys.n48.17414

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Genre, Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Political Humor

Abstract

In this paper, we present a genre study through the prism of Corpus Linguistics, specifically through the analysis of a corpus of journalistic opinion articles, authored by the writer Alejandro Borensztein, published in the Sunday column entitled Humor Político, in the Argentine newspaper Clarín. Our aims are to identify, analyse, and describe lexicogrammatical elements that point to the establishment of political humor as a genre, from an empirical-exploratory analysis of the corpus of study, by means of tools, techniques, and resources characteristic of research in written textual corpora. We resorted to the theoretical basis of Systemic-Functional Linguistics, regarding language as social semiotics (Halliday 1978) and the specific semiotic functions of the text, with social value in culture, in other words, the genres in relation to life in society. Based on keyword extraction and concordance lines analysis, we observe contextualized occurrences. The results point to different lexicogrammatical choices, confirming the persuasive social role of the discourses that emerge from the corpus, in which a critical point of view of the political-economic situation is carried out.

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  • Ariel Novodvorski, Universidad Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Instituto de Letras y Lingüística, Programa de Pós-Grado en Estudios Lingüísticos

    Ariel Novodvorski is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Language and Linguistics at the Federal University of Uberlândia (ILEEL/UFU), Minas Gerais, Brazil, since 2009. He holds a PhD in Linguistic Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, with postdoctoral studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). As a teacher and researcher, he works in the Spanish Language and Literature Undergraduate Program and the Graduate Program in Linguistic Studies, where he supervises master's and doctoral research. His research interests include: Phraseology; Metaphor; Terminology; Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies. He has over twenty-five years of experience in teaching, research, translation, and interpretation. He has published in various indexed journals and books. Dean of ILEEL/UFU (2017-2025).

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Published

2025-12-30

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No. 48 (2025): Julio-Diciembre

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Political Humor: the genre viewed from the lens of Corpus Linguistics. (2025). Signo & Seña, 48. https://doi.org/10.34096/sys.n48.17414

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