A questão do segredo nas antilínguas: uma visão ecolinguística

Abstract

Our interest in this paper is to discuss the issue of secrecy in the so called anti-languages, which are created by underground groups or any group whose members want for whatever reason to communicate with each other without being understood by the members of the surrounding community. Using the theoretical framework of ecolinguistics, we analyze the anti-language of street children, as well as the one from the gypsies (calon and kalderash) and the dread talk of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement. No matter how small is the group, their small community does not escape from the fundamental ecosys-tem of language, according to which we will only have a linguistic expression if there is a group of people (P) which is in a particular area / territory (T), using its specific language (L). In this case, with the exception of Kalderash language, this language is only a small vocabulary used in the context of Por-tuguese grammar. Finally, we note that the immigrants of the second and third generation or more also use the little devices that still retain from the language of their ancestors as a sort of anti-language.