This thesis examines 硬盘Yingpan ‘hard drive,’ a newly created online derogatory code word referring to the migrants in Shanghai against the historical background of discrimination of migrants in Shanghai. Based on corpus data from Chinese social media, I examine the usage patterns of this derogatory word. The results show four salient speech acts in which this word is used. These are 1) complaints about migrants, 2) abusive commands, 3) self-victimization of the locals, and 4) lamentation over the loss of Shanghai identity. These usage patterns reflect the impacts of societal changes as a result of mass migration in contemporary China. This study has implications for research of migration and the consequential societal tensions in societies across the globe.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of five Internet-based neologisms in the Global Web-based English corpus (GloWbE) (Davies, 2013), which includes data from six Inner Circle countries, where English is spoken as a native language, and 14 Outer Circle countries, where English has historically acquired an official status alongside the local languages (Kachru, 1985). Three of the target words (download, upload, and tweet) can function as verbs and nouns, whereas the other two (hashtag and app/s) only occur as nouns in the GloWbE corpus. Each word was examined in terms of its frequency of occurrence in the entire corpus and in each of the 20 countries. Then, the frequencies for the Inner and Outer Circle countries were collapsed and compared. For the first three words, which can be both verbs and nouns, separate searches were conducted in order to generate frequency statistics for the occurrence of the verbs and the nouns. Finally, the most frequent noun collocates for the verbs and the most frequent adjective collocates for the nouns were generated and analyzed. The data analysis revealed that in terms of overall frequency, the most frequently used was download, followed by tweet and upload, the latter showing the lowest frequency of the three. In addition, the statistics per million words showed higher frequencies for download and upload in the Outer Circle countries, whereas for tweet, higher frequencies per million words were observed in the Inner Circle countries. The most common noun collocates for the verb download included music, apps, and files, whereas upload and tweet most commonly occurred with photos and pictures. On the other hand, hashtag and app/s occurred only as nouns in the GloWbE corpus. Of the two, app/s showed a much higher frequency than hashtag, and in fact had the highest frequency statistics of the five words. The statistics per million words for the Inner and Outer Circles showed a consistent pattern, where the occurrence of both nouns per million words was at a higher rate in the Inner Circle than in the Outer Circle. The most common adjective collocates for app/s referred to different types, such as mobile apps, native apps, and third-party apps, whereas the adjectives modifying hashtag revealed a preference for new, popular, trending, and relevant hashtags. Overall, this study has revealed how five Internet-based neologisms occur in World Englishes in terms of frequencies, functions, and common collocates, which in turn suggested similarities and differences at the cultural and social level. It also invites further investigation of the GloWbE corpus, which as described by Davies and Fuchs (2015), offers numerous opportunities for comparisons among the different varieties of World English in terms of lexical, morphological, syntactic, and discourse variations.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar alguns aspectos do comportamento morfolexical e semântico de formantes prefixais, previamente registrados ou não pelas obras de referência de nossa língua, empregados na formação de unidades lexicais neológicas do português brasileiro contemporâneo. Como corpus de extração, selecionamos 89 blogs variados da internet veiculados, durante o ano de 2014, pelo portal UOL, pelo site do jornal Folha de S. Paulo e pela página da revista Veja. A metodologia empregada para a conferência do caráter neológico às formações prefixais recolhidas envolveu o processamento dos textos pela ferramenta computacional Extrator de Neologismos, utilizada pelo projeto TermNeo (FFLCHUSP), e a verificação da existência ou não dessas formações em três dicionários de língua geral: HOUAISS (versão eletrônica), AURÉLIO (versão eletrônica) e MICHAELIS (versão online). A diversidade inerente aos prefixos, de que resulta a histórica incerteza sobre ser a prefixação processo derivacional ou composicional, levou-nos a buscar uma análise que, de certo modo, privilegiasse justamente as idiossincrasias de cada formante prefixal. Sendo assim, guiados pela teoria do protótipo (ROSCH, 1973; 1975, apud CANÇADO, 2015; GEERAERTS, 2006, apud MARONEZE, 2011; GONÇALVES, 2012), propusemos a criação de um continuum de prefixidade, no qual os prefixos reais pudessem ser, após comparação de suas características às do protótipo, identificados como mais ou menos prefixais. / This research aims to study some morphological, lexical and semantic aspects of the prefixes, considered or not by the lexicographic and grammar traditions, used to create neologisms in the contemporary Brazilian Portuguese. We selected 89 blogs as the extraction corpus of our study. These blogs were published, during 2014, by three important Brazilian journalistic websites: UOL, Folha de S. Paulo and Veja magazine. In order to recognize the lexical unities as neologisms or not we first submitted the texts to Extrator de Neologismos, a software used within TermNeo project (FFLCH-USP), and then we verified the existence of the words selected by the software in three different dictionaries: HOUAISS (electronic version), AURÉLIO (electronic version) and MICHAELIS (online version). The diversity since always presented by the prefixes, which historically divided the studies into those that consider prefixation as derivational process and those that consider it as composicional process, made us to look for an analytical point of view that privileged exactly the idiosyncrasies of each prefix. So, guided by the prototype theory (ROSCH, 1973; 1975, apud CANÇADO, 2015; GEERAERTS, 2006, apud MARONEZE, 2011; GONÇALVES, 2012), we proposed the creation of a prefixity continuum, in which the real prefixes could be, after the comparison between them and the prototype prefix, identified as more or less prefixal.

Orientador: Odilon Helou Fleury Curado / Banca: Jeane Mari Sant'Ana Spera / Banca: Antonieta Laface / Banca: Marlene Durigan / Banca: Antonio Luciano Pontes / Conteúdo: v. 1. Vocabulário do futebol na mídia impressa : o glossário da bola - v. 2. Vocabulário do futebol na mídia impressa : o glossário da bola : A - D - v. 3. Vocabulário do futebol na mídia impressa : o glossário da bola : E - O - v. 4. Vocabulário do futebol na mídia impressa : o glossário da bola P - Z / Resumo: A partir de uma investigação sistemática sobre a mídia impressa contemporânea brasileira, em suas modalidades convencional e sistema on line, com ênfase para o eixo Rio-São Paulo, procedeu-se a um levantamento das constantes lexicais empregadas, especificamente, na linguagem particular do futebol. O corpus, foco de análise, foi constituído pelo material lingüístico coletado junto à imprensa escrita, em um recorte espacial compreendido no período de 1995 e 2005. Partindo desse acervo lingüístico procurou-se historiar, definir e estudar a prática do futebol, enfocando sua condição de esporte de massa, caracterizando-o, portanto, como um fenômeno social. A forma da escritura, da divulgação de notícias e comentários, envolvendo o universo do futebol, através da imprensa especializada ou não, recebeu uma abordagem investigativa envolvendo itens lexicais da língua comum que integram a linguagem do futebol: elementos autóctones, os vocábulos próprios, pertencentes ao domínio da prática do esporte: os tecnoletos, constituídos por estrangeirismos, decalques, empréstimos e vocábulos de diversas áreas do conhecimento humano que migraram por associação semântica, constituindo-se, por vezes, em uma modalidade de linguagem técnica de caráter banalizado. O processo de criação neológica foi, também, objeto de reflexões e, é exposto, na segunda parte do trabalho, que é constituído por glossário com 3.360 verbetes relativo ao universo do futebol, com notas elucidatórias sobre a gênese dos itens léxicos, constantes das abonações, além de informações gramaticais, etimológicas e enciclopédicas, acerca de cada unidade-entrada. / Abstract: This research aimed at investigating frequent words used to report written news on football. A systematic investigation was conducted in collecting data from Brazilian contemporary printed press and online counterpart, mainly Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo press. The systematized corpus was collected from written press from 1995 to 2005. This corpus was used to research football as a popular sport thus a social practice from a historical perspective. Written texts used to express football news and commentaries by specialized and non-specialized were analyzed and classified: vernacular terms, jargon, common language lexical used in football register, borrowings, literal translation, and words of several human knowledge areas which are integrated by semantics connected. In the second part of the research result, the process of neologism was also analyzed and a glossary 3,360 of football terms was reported with an explanation of each term origin, including grammatical, etymological and encyclopedic information and citation sources. / Doutor

<p>This essay examines the novel <em>Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture</em> by Douglas Coupland in an attempt to show how it is heavily postmodernist. Postmodernism is explained briefly to give an understanding of how it might be applied to the analysis of the novel. Then the analysis is divided into five different categories: characterization, language and style, setting and society, storytelling and thematic focus. Postmodernist literary theory is applied to various parts of the novel and the postmodernist features are highlighted and discussed. The conclusion is that <em>Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture</em> is indeed a heavily postmodernist novel.</p>

This essay examines the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland in an attempt to show how it is heavily postmodernist. Postmodernism is explained briefly to give an understanding of how it might be applied to the analysis of the novel. Then the analysis is divided into five different categories: characterization, language and style, setting and society, storytelling and thematic focus. Postmodernist literary theory is applied to various parts of the novel and the postmodernist features are highlighted and discussed. The conclusion is that Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture is indeed a heavily postmodernist novel.

This thesis focuses on the use of englishisms in Spanish daily newspapers. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the influence of English on Spanish and to confirm this influence through English borrowings found in Spanish newspapers. Another goal of this work is to find out causes and reasons for using these borrowings in newspapers. The technical linguistic terms, which are important for this research, are explained in the theoretic part. We deal with different concepts of englishism by various linguists. The practical part includes a detailed analysis and classification of lexical englishisms.

Este trabalho desenvolve um estudo sobre os neologismos encontrados nas revistas especializadas em adolescentes. Considera alguns pontos relacionados com as características físicas e psicológicas dos indivíduos dessa faixa etária. Analisa a linguagem usada pelos adolescentes e a linguagem das revistas que eles lêem. Também se refere à Lexicologia e à Lexicografia enfatizando a relação entre o léxico e o desenvolvimento social. Faz algumas considerações sobre neologia. Organiza uma lista de neologismos usados pelos adolescentes / This work develops a study about the neologisms found in magazines especialized in teenagers. It considers some points related to the phisycal and psychological caracteristics of this age. It analyses the language used by teenagers and the language of the magazines they read. It also refers to lexicography and lexicology, emphasizing the relation between lexicon and society development. It makes some considerations of neology. It organizes a list of the neologisms used by teenagers

En los últimos años, en Venezuela, el contexto político-económico, entre la continuidad del régimen y el descontento social, ha ocasionado que los venezolanos inventen y recreen una serie de palabras para expresarse sobre dicho acontecimiento. Este trabajo lexicográfico y lexicológico recoge y analiza dichas voces, tales como majunche, pupitrazo, boliburgués. Cada entrada lexicográfica presenta una definición, alguna precisión etimológica, una marca gramatical, una marca sociolingüística, un ejemplo de uso, y alguna nota lexicográfica. Los datos han sido recopilados de distintas fuentes, particularmente de sitios web, y validados por hablantes del país. La investigación concluye con la importancia de recoger las distintas expresiones lingüísticas de esta coyuntura como una forma de consignar una realidad que reclama ser comprendida y atendida.

Este trabalho desenvolve um estudo sobre os neologismos encontrados nas revistas especializadas em adolescentes. Considera alguns pontos relacionados com as características físicas e psicológicas dos indivíduos dessa faixa etária. Analisa a linguagem usada pelos adolescentes e a linguagem das revistas que eles lêem. Também se refere à Lexicologia e à Lexicografia enfatizando a relação entre o léxico e o desenvolvimento social. Faz algumas considerações sobre neologia. Organiza uma lista de neologismos usados pelos adolescentes / This work develops a study about the neologisms found in magazines especialized in teenagers. It considers some points related to the phisycal and psychological caracteristics of this age. It analyses the language used by teenagers and the language of the magazines they read. It also refers to lexicography and lexicology, emphasizing the relation between lexicon and society development. It makes some considerations of neology. It organizes a list of the neologisms used by teenagers