This study reflects on how the relations between Power and resisting forces act in the building of an imaginary that adds news meanings to language. Since language study is ideological, in this case a political issue, and that changes occur as determined by social laws and practices, here discourses by journalists that were published in the newspaper O Pasquim (1969 and 1970) are analyzed. As it was a newspaper, which opposed the dictatorial government, our initial question was: What effect such discourses would have produced, considering that it opposed the practices by the military government by means of humor? By using a symbolic writing, humor cheats and pervades the structure of the worked language in writing manuals used by the Brazilian press during the Médici government. At the same time, the journalistic text, even if resulting from a specialized writing practice, institutionalized by writing manuals, can be thought of as a space for resistance, mistakes and subjectivities.
Brazilian press; Humor; Resistance
