Estrangeirismo na região da Serra Gaúcha : lexias de origem inglesa presentes no jornal Pioneiro

Abstract

Linguistic studies indicate that all languages suffer influence and change with the contact with the linguistic practices of different human groups. In addition to the words that are created by the needs of the day-by-day, goods consumed by society, in general, bring along words in foreign languages that are daily used in almost all regions of the planet. In this way, it is unavoidable that foreign words take part of the written and oral production of society and that the phenomenon of the incorporation of English lexicon, in particular, seems increasingly common in the mass media. Thus, this research looks for the presence of the linguistic process known as foreignness, based on Alves (2007), Barbosa (1981) and Basílio (1987) studies, focusing on the incidence of anglicisms in the practices of the print media in the region of Serra Gaucha. For the analysis of which words are part of the English language daily used in the writing practices in the largest printed newspaper of this region, were selected texts present in texts from Capas and Contracapas and from the sections: Cidade-Caxias, Região-Cidades-Cotidiano and Sete Dias-Comportamento. This corpus was taken from twelve editions of the years 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015, totalizing sixty copies of the Pioneiro newspaper. This study reveals that the use of anglicisms by Pioneiro newspaper, in the analyzed sections, was constant in the researched years. It is also possible to observe the incidence increasing from 1995 to 2005.