Análisis léxico-semántico del lenguaje de la comunidad gamer

Abstract

Sociolinguistics is a discipline devoted to the analysis of linguistic variation influenced by the social environment. In introductions to sociolinguistics, the variable of age is generally mentioned as relevant to linguistic variation. Among the different age groups, young people stand out as the group that has generated the most striking idiomatic form. The aim of this research is to identify the lexical-semantic terms used by the gamer community, both in casual and competitive environments, and to analyze how anglicisms adopt the processes of nounification and verbalization of Spanish. The work began with an ethnographic study, which involved an approach to the communities of the video games Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Minecraft and Roblox, made up of players of the aforementioned video games. For data collection, we resorted to participatory observations and semi-structured interviews, which allowed us to better understand the meanings and signs that allow communication within this video game. The lexical-semantic analysis of the collected terms will be determined and analyzed according to a lexicographic strategy, that is, by means of a glossary that provides us with grammatical and semantic information. Finally, we will write down the social and linguistic conclusions we have reached with this study.