Sissy That Talk: the influence of the shows RuPaul Drag Race and Girls in the House in the linguistic repertoire of adolescents and young adults
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https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2019.37601Keywords:
Superdiversity, Linguistic Repertoire, Ideology, Identity, LGBTTI.Abstract
The first purpose of this pilot study is to describe the influence of the linguistic repertoires of the North-American reality show RuPaul Drag Race and of the Brazilian youtube webseries Girls In The House in the linguistic repertoire of adolescents and young adults in the LGBTTI community. For the development of this study, it was considered ideological and identity aspects (BAUMAN, 2005; MOITA LOPES, 2002) that permeate the linguistic expressions of these groups. Moreover, when we reflect on the current context of globalization (KUMARAVADIVELU, 2006) and on the more intense linguistic-cultural contacts (RYMES, 2010), we note that the linguistic repertoire that is born within LGBTTI groups (that are disseminated by the programs), is also reshaped in the groups of adolescents and young adults who identify with the cultural and ideological aspects of LGBTTI groups, without necessarily being part of that community. The second purpose of this pilot study is to describe and analyze the linguistic repertoire of adolescents and young adults, through data from Facebook, specifically from posts of the secret group LDRV: Melodrama Era, which currently has one million members. Subsequently, a case study was conducted from interviews with group members to describe and analyze the linguistic uses adopted by individuals to relate them to the repertoire of the television programs and the LGBTTI community. The results suggest that the series function as a model of linguistic use for speakers who, hence, express their ideologies and identity issues.
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