Discurso polêmico em verbetes do dicionário informal: a unidade lexical “piriguete”

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the polemical discourse in the entries of lexical unit “piriguete” produced between 2007 and 2008 in the Dicionário inFormal. Considering the relationship between language, subject and history, it starts from the assumption according to which the language is exposed to misunderstanding, since the discourse moves its systematicity. It discusses the specificity of Dicionário inFormal, which does not reinforce the language standard, but breaks it and interpellates the speaker to hold the speakerlexicographer position. It notes, in this regard, a displacement of language, reading and writing of this dictionary, whose space is related to communication practices on the Internet where the communication conditions are transformed, as well as the notion of gender textual and textuality. To analyze the polemical discourse, entries of the Dicionário inFormal are symbolic objects and the lexical unit “piriguete” is referred to its historical production conditions. It analyzes, from theoretical principles espoused in lexicology (synonym, hypernym, primary and secondary meaning, lexical fields and defining), the polemical discourse of relations with the discursive formations and the relationships established between the discursive formations and ideology. It reveals, finally, how the lexical unit “piriguete” means a woman who is taken in entries as an object of sexual pleasure in a society in which man occupies the center of socio-economic and cultural relations