With the globalization and the easy access to the Internet, it is known that today there is a shortening of distances due to increase of the use of technologies, mainly through social networks. The purpose of this article ...

This paper aims to study neologism formation processes available on digital media Instagram, in 2017, from the words sabadar, plenissimo, estranhice, carnistas, contatinho, prenada, baile, stalker, stalkeio e meme. We based ...

This qualitative-type research aims at highlighting, based on emerging texts found in the social net Facebook, the importance of the word-formation processes to the teaching of the Portuguese language and at confirming the ...

The present research assumes the commitment to undertake a research about perspectives for the study of the lexicon, considering the most frequent neological formations in the emerging genre online commentary textual. ...

This work focus itself on the lexical aspect of semantic neologisms and its approach on the portuguese classes on Brazil. The main goal of this paper is to analyze, through a qualitative analysis done from a corpus of ...

Really knowing a word goes far beyond of being able to infer its meaning. Using it properly requires a skill that demands a deep knowledge of lexical items by the speaker of a language. Clearly, native teachers are responsible ...

In general, the language tends to change every day, following the cultural evolution of language community. Because it, inevitably, certain words are no longer used by other speakers and appear others, according to need. ...

When we read a book, newspaper or magazine, it is not uncommon to come across a term that we do not know the meaning of, some of which seem to be foreign words or expressions, others are in fact, but they seem to be ...