Typification of linguistic affiliation. A study of the nominal forms of address of the LGTBI speaking community

Abstract

This paper deals with the study of linguistic affiliation based on the analysis of a corpus of real speech samples from the LGTBI speaking community. The corpus is composed of five colloquial conversations and 20 semi-directed interviews, recorded in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia during 2018 and 2019. It has been collected by the author of this paper and all its informants are members of the LGTBI-speaking community. Starting from the study of the behavior of the nominal forms of address characteristic of the slang of this subculture, the different ways of generating affiliative statements will be analyzed, the way in which they act, the direction of the affiliation and, from these elements, there will be proposed some linguistic affiliation types. After this study, we have determinated that affiliation can be generated in three different ways: a speech act by which the speaker intends to include himself within a group or community; the second form way will be carried out throught a statement that has the purpose to integrate the receptor into the group to which the interlocutor belongs; and, thirdly, a speech act is formulated with which the interlocutors intend to reinforce a mutual belonging to a community and strengthen it throught resources that confirm that mutual belonging (they are both the ones who integrate each other, throught of particular linguistic resources). Throught this analysis and the conclusions drawn, it is intended to expand the scientific studies on linguistic affiliation and offer a new perspective of analysis of this phenomenos based on the typification that has been proposed. This study may be a precedent for future research on linguistic camaraderie, noy only within the LGTBI-speaking community, but also in the slang of other subcultures or even in general speech.