LAUGHTER AND CARNIVALIZATION IN THE TIME-SPACE OF THE CLASSROOM

Abstract

The article problematizes the laughter of young people in the classroom, considering discursive intonations laden with irony and mockery. We have borrowed from Bakhtin's literary analysis of Rabelais' work his propositions about the popular carnival. Through a dialogic approach to discourse, we retrieve data from research carried out in a municipal school on the outskirts of Campinas-SP. The analysis explains how the situations of laughter and humor act by questioning and subverting the hegemonic order and putting different ideological positions in debate. In this way, school time-space is experienced as a carnivalesque chronotope of the classroom, enabling young people to think about everyday life while projecting an utopian world.