Entregadores de aplicativos nas charges os empreendedores: uma análise discursiva

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze cartoons that deal with the theme of the work of app delivery workers, seeking to discursively understand their mode of operation. For this, it relied on the theoretical-methodological apparatus of Materialist Discourse Analysis, which works in between Language, History and the Unconscious at the interface with the Sociology of Work (Antunes, 2008; 2019; 2020; 2021). The analytical corpus consists of cartoons by the cartoonist Toni D'Agostinho, more precisely his cartoons belonging to the series entitled “The Entrepreneurs”. The results of the analysis showed that, through the linguistic-discursive resource of irony, the cartoons deconstruct the discourse of entrepreneurship that is the basis of the discourse of application companies, highlighting insecurity, vulnerability and precariousness of work in the neoliberal era.