VERS L’ESTHETIQUE DU CORPS « LIBERE »: ETUDE DU LEXIQUE SOMATIQUE DANS LE DISCOURS PORNOGRAPHIQUE EXTERNE
TOWARDS THE AESTHETIC OF THE ‘LIBERATED’ BODY: STUDY OF THE SOMATIC VOCABULARY IN EXTERNAL PORNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we present the results of a study devoted to the analysis of the corpus, which consists of lexical diastratic material of a non-standard variety of the French language: about one hundred information sheets referred to as erotic biographies, which in turn seem to be the most noticeable example of the genre of external pornographic discourse today. In this case, these are biographies of X actors collected on the French-language website: https://www.videosxgays.com/. The analysis was based on the classification of Jean-Jacques Robrieux’s figures of discourse, focusing on the clearly extensive somatic isotopy distinguished during the study. Analyzing the individual lexemes currently functioning in this type of discourse, we have distinguished a number of linguistic means that describe the beauty of the “liberated” male body in a special way. Firstly, it is extensive and suggestive lexical instruments carrying positive connotations. Secondly, it turns out that the lexical layer of the corpus studied is marked by three interesting characteristics: the use of specialized (anatomical) vocabulary, the presence of English borrowings and the accumulation of vocabulary typical of the informal register of contemporary French. Thirdly, an accumulation of two types of figures of discourse was observed, i.e. figures of thought and figures of sense, such as metaphors, similes, and hyperboles.

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