A Geolinguistic Study of the Lexical Variable Prostitute in Manaus

• Autor(a) principal: Margotti, Felício Wessling
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Azevedo, Orlando da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Signum: Estudos da Linguagem
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/45594
• topic: Dialetologia; Prostituta; Manaus.; Variação Lexical; Variação lexical para designar "prostituta"; Estudo dialetológico; Variação linguística; Dialectology; Lexical Variation; Prostitute; Manaus; Lexical variation for "prostitute"; dialectological study; Linguistic variation

In this paper, we analyze the lexical variants of the referent prostitute in manauara speaking. As theoretical support, we follow Chambers & Trudgill (1994), Radke & Thun (1996) and Thun (2010). For the study, we analyzed the data collected through a question asked to residents of four neighborhoods in the city of Manaus, state of Amazonas, Brazil: Praça 14 de Janeiro (South Zone), Nova Cidade (North Zone), Zumbi dos Palmares (East Zone) and Glória (West Zone). In each neighborhood eight informants were selected to compose the analysis in the diatopical (four neighborhoods), diasexual (male and female), diagenerational (18 to 30 years old and 50 to 65 years old) and diastratic (complete High School and complete Higher Education) dimensions, thus characterizing a geolinguistic research in the pluridimensional modality. The result showed that, in these four neighborhoods, the lexical variable prostitutepresents ten lexical variants in manauara portuguese: prostituta, puta, dama da noite, garota de programa, bagaça, mulher de programa, sem vergonha, vadia, mulher da vida and cesta básica.