As gírias da língua portuguesa e da língua inglesa que são utilizadas por comunidades LGBT: situações de aproximação e distanciamentos

Abstract

The present work proposes itself to analyze the situations in where is possible to approximate or hold off the meanings and the etymology of slangs. Taking into consideration the cultural process and which translating method was used. Owing that the slang also is pointed as a form of resistance of plenty communities, focusing specifically on those that are used by the members of the LGBTQIA+ community, both in the English language and the Portuguese one. Starting from a bibliographic research, based on theorists as Pierce (2000), Spears (2000), Coulthard (1991), among others. This investigation had as its main goal, identify if the life experiences of a specific community could influence its slangs, independently where they are. To compare, there were used slangs, whose corpus had, as a source, the TV show Queer as Folk, both to the vocabulary collected in English, as to the translation in Portuguese used on the TV show. The analyses were made, not only about the proximately with its translation, but the possible existence of a slang in the Brazilian LGBTQIA+ community that could have more equivalence. The results show the life experiences of the community as the main factor of its creations and, consequently, the influence of these life experiences on the slangs, even if it occur in different languages