Loan words in the Brazilian Feminist Movement : Anglicisms in Mediatic Context

Abstract

Globalization expands the process of spreading foreign words from all over the world. In this scenario, the United States of America represents the major economic, technological, and military power in the world (CRYSTAL, 2003; CARVALHO, 2002), which naturally impacts other cultures and languages, including the Brazilian Portuguese Language (BPL). That influence can also be observed in other fields, such as social movements (being Feminism a current representative). Once the Feminist Movement is present in many countries, and face some similar problems related to women issues, it is expected that the English Language influence will be present in the Feminist speech. This work is a documentary research that aims to verify the presence of Anglicisms in the Brazilian feminist speech that has been spread through online news (more specifically by the websites G1, Uol, Capricho and Marie Claire) from 2017 to October 2022. Seventy-four (74) occurrences of Anglicisms were found in those websites to compose the corpus of analysis. The analysis considered quantitative and qualitative perspectives. The qualitative analysis brings considerations from Paiva (2001) and Carvalho (2002) upon the presence of loan words in the Brazilian lexicon. Results have shown that Anglicisms present in the Brazilian Feminist Movement are a dynamic phenomenon. Also, the work reinforces the importance of digital communication technologies in fomenting discussions that facilitates the spreading of loan words.