Estratégias de construção do ethos gay masculino no blog Katylene.com: um estudo da multimodalidade e das gírias gay

Abstract

In this research, we analyze the construction of the male gay ethos in the blog katylene.com, considering the multimodal resources used by the blog user and the manifestations of gay slangs, which show elements of orality from male gays. To achieve our objective, we develop a discussion based on the concept of Discursive Ethos, grounded on studies as Maingueneau (1993; 1998; 2005; 2008) and Amossy (2005). In the sequence, we discuss Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) multimodal theory about the concept of slang, used by Castro (1938), Guérios (1979), Preti (1982; 1983; 1984; 2000; 2001) and Araújo (2008). Concerning the corpus collection, we selected 22 posts collected in the eleven post categories from the blog homepage katylene.com. In the data analysis, we make use of the triptych model of visual space dimensions, proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006). Based on this model, it was possible to verify that data extracted from the blog show an salience interchange of the multimodal elements that characterize each one of the ethé that compose the male gay ethos. Besides that, due to the compositional characteristics of the blog, the data pointed out that the triptych model proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) should be redesigned. When we proceed to the analysis of gay slangs composition presented in the blog, we verified that the strategies of phonetic writing are not an evidence of an opposition between the ethé