Transverse Discourse in Jokes about Corinthians Fans

Abstract

The article aims at making explicit the relationship between “Corinthians fans” and “poor people” and, subsequently, between “poor people” and “thieves” by analyzing a small corpus of jokes. It shows that, from the theoretical/methodological standpoint, this is a case of transverse discourses and from a historical point of view, a case of a long-term discourse, which is rarely fully expressed as such but which still works as a source of prejudiced discourses.