Artigo de Periódico
O item 'trouxa' no português do Twitter
Fecha
2020Autor
Alexia Teles Duchowny
Caroline de Oliveira Silva
Institución
Resumen
The aim is to analyze the item trouxa of the Portuguese language, which currently has at least two meanings: the etymological of “bundle (of clothes)” and the innovative of “silly person, easy to be deceived”. The item underwent a process of “pejoratization” by its users, a phenomenon described by Semantic Linguistics in which the word receives a negative evaluation. Thus trouxa, a term to refer to a concrete object until the nineteenth century, also refers to a foolish person, or made foolish by others. On Twitter, where the written language has many characteristics of orality, the use of the term to refer to someone silly is very recurrent, with various nominal forms.