A dinamicidade lexical em textos de domínio político: ecos das eleições de 2010

Abstract

This paper intends to study the lexical dynamicity on political media, concerned to press during the recent elections occurred in the country (2010). An adequate corpus was selected to the research, a vast investigation of the presence of the lexical neologisms was made and their descriptions classification and semantical meanings were developed. As long as the construction took place, it turned crucial to point out the richness and vitality of the neologisms as mechanisms of lexical expansion on the selected articles, illustrating strongly how the lexicon, as a dynamical system, operates as one of the linguistical sublevels more acquainted to creativity, also able to reveal faiths, values, costumes and habits of a linguistical community. As a matter of fact, at last but not at least, it was also purpose demonstrating that the used current language on political contexts, considering its permanent environment of pressures, tensions and flights, is clearly marked by the birth of new signs, which, for denominative and/or stylistical motivations, are able to evidence, very often, intentions and ideologies of the creatures responsible for their enunciation. Finally, a glossary was elaborated with the brand-new terms found, that offers possibility for a longitudinal observation on neology, in Brazilian-Portuguese field, still visiting and underlining some political-cultural changes occurred to the country and its population in 2010