The phenomenon of shipping in the appointment of couples: a new employ of Lexical Blending

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the phenomenon of shipping (a recent practice that consists of naming affective relationships of characters, couples or friends) in the light of the Prosodic Morphology (MCCARTHY, 1986) instruments of representations. We based in the existing descriptions about the lexical blending in Brazilian Portuguese (BASILIO, 2005; ANDRADE, 2013), in order to verify if the typology proposed for common names also applies to anthroponyms shipped: (a) lexical interposition; (b) truncated combination  terminology) and (c) reanalysis or sublexical replacement. Our corpus consists of 212 data. With the exception of 10 data collected from spontaneous speech, all the rest were removed from the internet. Most of the ships collected refer to television programs or online platforms’ for films, series (such as Netflix) and soap operas. The main sources are the sites that talk about characters and actors in these narratives, such as magazines, newspapers, fanfics, various blogs, in addition to the social networks Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. In this description, we intend to show that the boundaries between the so-called non-concatenative processes are not always very clear, since ships seem to be halfway between the blend, on the one hand, and the initialism and hypocorization of compound names, on the other.