A performatividade do discurso feminino em shows de Stand up comedy

Abstract

This study analyzes the performativity of female speech in stand up comedy shows, through direct or indirect quotations of female discourse uttered by three comedians. We start the study from an enunciative perspective of language (BENVENISTE, 1989), but, focusing on the feminine speech, we base our analysis on Butler (2016), mainly by the re-reading done by Salih (2015), who studies performativity, related to gender issues. Butler (2016), who starts from the foundations of Austin's pragmatics, with the speech-act theory, formulates her own procedures of analysis, from which we adopt citacionality, understood as the repetition of a sign in different contexts from the original one (PINTO, 2013). These quotations were analyzed considering the force that humor has to disseminate speeches. In this case, we work with the hypothesis that these speeches repeat the sexist, prejudiced, stereotyped and masculine points of view, which the analysis have confirmed. Therefore, we conclude that the performativity of feminine speech is related, or remains predominantly related, to what male speech dictates. More specifically, considering that identity is constructed and constituted by language (BUTLER, 2016), the feminine identity, from what we analyze in stand-up shows, remains constructed by masculine speech. To problematize this order to reverse this state of things, it seems to us, should be the role of humor, but it was not observed in our study.