Os processos relacionados aos estrangeirismos no jogo online League of legend

Abstract

The internet is a place for countless types of social interactions between people from different communities. Thus, the present work sought to analyze the processes that led to the creation of foreign words in the communication of the online game League of Legends in Brazil. Thereby, research based on the concepts of Charles Sanders Peirce and his theory of the Sign as a symbol and Maria Tereza Camargo Biderman and her studies of the classification of foreignness was adopted. In addition, the selected methodology was the descriptive exploratory one, where an attempt was made to map the words, most used by League of Legends players and of a qualitative nature in the elaboration of definitions for the neologisms found. Hence, it can be seen that the creation of foreign words was a strategy adopted by the community of LOL players for better gameplay and that the structuring and formation of neologisms in the game had to go through some syntactic, graphic, and phonological adaptations so that they could work in the target language which is Portuguese.