“Não tankei e fui de base”: interações discursivas em League of Legends e suas implicações

Abstract

The present study aims to explore and unravel the implications that the discursive interactions adopted by the League of Legends gamer community cause in our social, sociocultural and sociolinguistic scope. In order to investigate, essentially, evidence of linguistic prejudice towards the gamer community and the reason why this occurs, if found. For this study, essentially, the following theoretical contributions were used: the concepts of Applied Linguistics (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001), of Foreignness and Discursive Interactions (BRONCKART, L. P; 1999), (FARACO, C. A; 2001), (POPLACK, 2004), (BAKTHIN, 1982) and Linguistic Prejudice (BAGNO, 1999). Based on these theoretical assumptions, an anonymous interview (LPL MERCADO, 2012) was conducted with participants from the League of Legends gamer community and the results revealed that the existence of these implications is due to a lack of linguistic knowledge outside cyberspace.