Representações sociais e questões de gênero : uma análise das nomeações genitais no dicionário informal

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Vitória Laís Santos
• Orientador(a): Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Psicologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Psicologia social; Representações sociais; Aparelho genital; Nomenclatura popular; Gênero; Linguagem
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Social representations; Gender; Language; Social psychology
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/16087

Social representations govern the relationship of individuals with the world and with others, guiding and organizing conduct and social communications and functioning as a system of interpretation of the environment. Both sex and sexuality are socially organized by these representations and are supported by a variety of denominations that seek to say what can and should be expressed. The invisible forces surrounded by the taboo censor the language and motivate a modification of this language depending on the context, either to adapt to moralistic norms or to transgress them, promoting the creation and circulation of new denominations, such as “caralho”, “piroca” , “pau”, “giromba”, “pinto” and “jeba”, referring to the penis and “buceta”, “xereca”, “xana”, “xoxota”, “ximbica”, “cona” and “perseguida”, referring to the vagina and vulva. When we name human genitalia in different ways, we are creating and reproducing, even if unconsciously, a series of other classifications that infer socially shared constructions or meanings, since all social life is organized through representations that imply categories. Thus, we aim to visualize how people categorize gender and analyze the social representations regarding the categories of male and female imbricated in the names given to the penis and vagina/vulva. For this, we use the Theory of Social Representations seeking to understand how the categories of masculine and feminine are constituted and represented from an empirical exploration of the genital synonymies that appear in the website Dicionário InFormal, a free monolingual Brazilian Portuguese dictionary for the internet in which words are defined by users. Using the search tool available on the InFormal Dictionary platform, we performed a search for synonyms for the entries “penis”, “vagina” and “vulva” and found 777 nominations, 352 for penis, 356 for vagina and 69 for vulva. From this, we formed our corpus of analysis, which consists of 1648 registered meanings for each nomination found, referring to the genitals. After the constitution of the corpus, the data was categorized according to some analysis factors, namely: definition, example of use, linguistic aspects, users' names, evaluative polarization and gender clues. The results showed that, although the frequency of lexemes related to the female genital is higher, regarding the sentiment analysis, the synonyms of penis and vagina/vulva are evaluated and defined with a balanced valuation, without demonstrating a well-marked superiority and inferiority between them. genres. However, from the analysis of dictionaries, semas and use of diminutives and augmentatives, we point out subtle differences that infer representations of masculinity focused on sexual freedom and representations of femininity focused on affectivity and lack of importance. We conclude that the lexical items that name the male and female genital organs are imbricated with meanings aimed at the social roles imposed on men and women, based on outdated representations that maintain gender asymmetries.