Discursive Event in Mafalda: Memory Echoes of the azos-Cycle

Abstract

In the light of the French Discourse Analysis, this article proposes reflections about the role of "memory in “discursive event” which is set in the saying way of the protagonist of Argentinean comic strips - Mafalda. Thus, from the conception of a discursive event as the "encontro de uma atualidade e uma memória" (PÊCHEUX, 2008, 17), we have undertaken our gesture of reading dividing the research into three moments: in the first one, we describe the historical event Cordobazo. In the second part, we discuss about memory and also about the founding discourse, and in the third, we present our gesture of reading considering the corpus formed by the comic strip originally published in the same magazine’s edition where is reported the historical event. In concluding the analysis, we observe that Mafalda's political-ironic discourse contributes to the stabilization of the senses produced by the discursive event as memory unites the linguistic process (set in the suffix -azo) with the historical event.