Socio-Cognitive Strategies Of Elderly About Satirical Journalistic Interpretation

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the socio-cognitive strategies of elderly about satirical journalistic interpretation. Participated in the qualitative research four people aged over 60 years, two male and two female, with an average of ten years of schooling that are part of the "Faculty for Third Age. Three newspaper caricatures were presented to the subjects for being interpreted. The procedure was first present for each subject one satirical journalistic requesting an each time them to spoke "what you intend to say that figure" and if they knew the matter in satirical journalistic.. The analysis was to identify the socio-cognitive strategies used in the processing of interpretation of satirical texts. This research was relevant to describe the linguistic and cognitive process referred to in intertextuality process of satirical caricatures for elderly subjects. The prospect was better understand the language-cognition relationship in the aging process and study the nature and the involvement of language in this context. Finally, the results show that there are differences in the sociocognitive linguistic pathway performed by each elderly person in the cognitive-linguistic understanding through the interpretation of cartoons. The elderly can maintain good performance in understanding, as long as they keep active their encyclopedic knowledge and world.