ABSTRACT
The article aims at making explicit the relationship between "Corinthians fans" and "poor people" and, subsequently, between "poor people" and "thieves" by analyzing a small corpus of jokes. It shows that, from the theoretical/methodological standpoint, this is a case of transverse discourses and from a historical point of view, a case of a long-term discourse, which is rarely fully expressed as such but which still works as a source of prejudiced discourses.
KEYWORDS:
Humor; Transverse Discourse; Corinthians Fan; Poor People-Thieves