Implicit assumptions: Facilitators of meaning production in strips
Verbal and non-verbal language; multimodality; assumption!; Implicit; gender strip
With this study, I aim to reflect on how one teaches and how the student perceives the interaction between nonverbal and verbal language in a multimodal text of the genre comic strip, using "Hagar, The Horrible" as an example. It is important to state that the choice of the strips of the Hagar character is not random, since it carries a lot of information with which the student must supply his own encyclopedic knowledge: he is a non-brave Viking (not a Brazilian), a anti-hero commanded by the wife and without any command over the behavior of the children.
In order to trace the path to this study, a qualitative and quantitative research of an applied nature will be used, using action research as a procedure.
As a general objective, one expects to verify if, when the sixth-year student, who does not systematically study the notions of presuppositions and implicit, is exposed to such notions, they would serve as reading strategies to be applied to the interpretation and analysis of multimodal texts of the strip genre.