A neologia no campo semântico da informática: um estudo léxico-discursivo na construção de significantes e significados

Abstract

This dissertation scope is the lexical renewal of Portuguese Language used in Brazil based on conceptual and vocabulary neologisms construction in the computing semantic field by a lexicon-discursive approach. The investigation of neological productions counts with a corpus of analysis composed of thirty-five texts published by the newspaper O GLOBO in computing section with a temporary clipping of twenty seven years (1990-2017). The texts were selected of O GLOBO digital file (1990-2016) and from the printed version of the newspaper (2017). Even though information technology represents a specialized language, it s presented in millions of Brazilian s house where these ones are not informatics specialists but use many of these terms in their speeches on society, sometimes with changes in the use and context creating new lexicon productions. In this way, many informatics meanings and signifiers have been produced and included in general dictionaries. The theoretical base of this study is based in: André Valente, Nelly Carvalho and Ieda Maria Alves, in neologism studies, Hebert Andreas Welker and Claudia Xatara, in the studies of dictionary organization. The qualitative approach was used in word selections, and the quantitative one to identify the occurrence of words in the media texts. In addition, it counts on a corpus of exclusion composed by Houaiss Dictionary (2011), UNESP (2011), Aurélio (2010), on its impress version, and Caldas Aulete Dictionary, on its digital version in order to classify the investigated words as neologisms or not