RECURSOS LINGüíSTICOS USADOS POR ADOLESCENTES VENEZOLANOS EN LA CREACIóN DE APODOS

The lexicon used by the young people, more specifically, the creation of nicknames used by them, is the object of study of the present work. Adolescents conform a linguistic community to very particular characteristic that identify them like group. The creativity like an essential characteristic of the language is made clear thus. Here the lexicon plays an important role. For that reason, its study acquires great relevance to also know, not only phenomena, but psychological issues present either in the individuals, or in social groups. The methodology that was used is of field, of qualitative type. The instruments used were the interview with open questions and a designed factory of Language to compile corpus. The analysis and interpretation of corpus became to the light of morphologic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic the analysis. This fact gives relevance to the intentionality of the speaker. They settled down, for the interpretation of the data, four categories: binominal names, compounds, united sintagmáticas structures with preposition. One reached the following results: the category that is used more for the formation of the nicknames is the referred one to names. In the creation of sobrenames there is a motivation that comes from wich significant characteristics are taken that they constitute the sémica base of the nickname, wich is translated is a syntactic structure, this way interrelate two levels of the language: syntactic and the semantic one. In addition, the adolescents stand out as much characteristic physical, as of behavior, being the first most outstanding ones. On the other hand, nicknames reflect values in our society, such as machismo, virginity, and racism. El léxico utilizado por los jóvenes, más específicamente, la creación de apodos usados por ellos, es el objeto de estudio del presente trabajo. Los adolescentes conforman una comunidad lingüística con características muy particulares que los identifica como grupo. La metodología que se empleó es de campo, de tipo cualitativa. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron: la entrevista con preguntas abiertas y un taller de Lengua dise ado para compilar el corpus. Se establecieron, para la interpretación de los datos, cuatro categorías: nombres, compuestos binominales, compuestos adjetivales, estructuras sintagmáticas unidas con preposición. Se llegó a los siguientes resultados: la categoría que más se utiliza para la formación de los apodos es la referida a nombres. En la creación de sobrenombres hay una motivación que proviene de la realidad circundante, de la cual se toman rasgos signi