The Lexical Creativity of Brazilian Portuguese in Catalão Written Press

Abstract

The research discusses the occurrence of semantic and lexical neologisms in the main Catalão newspapers: the newspaper “Diário Dito e Feito” (JDDF) and “Diário o Catalão” (JDC). The research aims to analyze the lexical formation of the Brazilian Portuguese based on written corpus. The research describes the lexical-semantic variation of Portuguese from Catalão, identifies the lexical creativity and sorts neologisms present in written corpora. 5 editions of JDC and 11 editions of JDDF issues in 2016 were chosen randomly by selecting topics: news from Catalão, state news, sports news and varieties news. Houaiss Dictionary (2009) was the corpus of exclusion to identify neologisms. The research concluded that newspapers have high occurrence of loanwords (136 cases) and the formation of words in the Portuguese occurred in 100 cases. The JDDF had a higher incidence (91) of cases of formation by derivation and composition. The research observed the formation of words using abbreviations and acronyms present in the corpus in 57 cases. The word from Catalão varies semantically, result of regional contexts that characterize it, but there are also cases of forming products names

Keywords

• portuguese
• neologisms
• catalão newspapers