A utilização de alcunhas para designar as equipas de futebol da Premier League inglesa na imprensa digital espanhola

Autores

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v23i2.27867

Palavras-chave:

alcunhas, clubes de futebol ingleses, imprensa espanhola, anglicismos, funções pragmáticas

Resumo

As alcunhas estão associadas, há muito tempo, a vários desportos em diferentes países e línguas, pelo que não é de estranhar que sejam utilizadas para designar diferentes clubes de futebol ingleses. Muitas vezes, estes apelativos estão culturalmente ligados às origens ou à história destas equipas de futebol, bem como aos seus adeptos. Investigações anteriores centraram-se na análise da utilização de alcunhas no domínio do desporto, mas não foram encontrados estudos recentes que abordem a área específica dos clubes de futebol ingleses. Este artigo pretende fornecer dados sobre a utilização de alcunhas referentes a equipas de futebol inglesas que participaram na Premier League durante a época 2023/2024 no contexto da imprensa digital espanhola. O motor de busca de anglicismos ‘Observatorio Lázaro’ é usado para extrair exemplos de utilização real de vários jornais espanhóis em linha, de abril de 2020 a fevereiro de 2024. Uma análise qualitativa e quantitativa da amostra revela que os jornalistas espanhóis tendem a utilizar muitos dos apelativos examinados para se referirem a clubes de futebol ingleses. As motivações subjacentes a estas utilizações são discutidas, tendo em conta algumas funções linguísticas pragmáticas destas alcunhas.

Biografia do Autor

  • Carmen Luján-García, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España

    Is an Associate Professor at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain, where she currently teaches ESP at the Modern Languages, Translating and Interpreting Department. She has also taught English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)  as a visiting teacher in the United States. She is a member of the Research Group “Estudios socioculturales y sociolingüísticos”. Her main field of research is the sociolinguistics of English in Spain, and she has extensively worked and published on the presence of anglicisms in different areas of the Spanish language. She has also worked on the use of Information Technology (IT) in the ESL and ESP classroom. Some of her publications are: La lengua inglesa en Canarias: usos y actitudes (2003); The English Language and Anglo-American Culture: Its Impact on Spanish Language and Society (2013); La presencia del inglés en la publicidad televisiva (2013-2015) in 2015; Anglicismos sexuales en español (2018), and she has edited the volume Anglicismos en los nuevos medios de comunicación: tendencias actuales (2021). She has published different international papers in journals indexed in JCR such as English Today, Onomazein, CALL, Spanish in Context, Sintagma, Terminology, among others. 

     

  • Eugenia Esperanza Núñez Nogueroles, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, España

    Is currently based at the University of Extremadura (UEx, Spain), although, during the academic years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, she is carrying out a research stay at the University of Lisbon (Portugal). She is a member of the Research Institute for Linguistics and Applied Languages (LINGLAP, UEx, Spain) and of the Research Group ‘Text and Discourse in Modern English’ (University of Granada, Spain). She has published articles and book chapters related to her research interests, which include Anglicisms in Spanish, Corpus-based studies, Lexicology, Lexicography, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, and Inclusion in Higher Education. The results she has obtained have been disseminated in different international conferences, too. 

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2024-12-30

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v. 23 n. 2 (2024)

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Luján-García, C., & Núñez Nogueroles, E. E. (2024). A utilização de alcunhas para designar as equipas de futebol da Premier League inglesa na imprensa digital espanhola. Lengua Y Sociedad, 23(2), 535-555. https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v23i2.27867