O léxico nos anúncios de emprego

um estudo em países lusófonos

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the description of the lexicon used in job advertisements, specifically by analysing the profession/occupation nouns that appear as titles in 300 job advertisements published online in three Portuguese-speaking countries: Angola, Brazil and Portugal. The study involved identifying and describing the main word formation processes that operate in the construction of these nouns, proposing a comparative analysis of the data from the three countries in scope. The results obtained confirm trends found in other Romance languages (Marchal & Torny 2003; Buvet 2018), with a prevalence of compositional profession/occupation nouns, mainly following the Noun-Preposition-Noun compositional scheme, which may be related to the growing technicality and specialisation of these nouns. The use of English terms is also relevant, especially in adverts published in Portugal, which reflects a trend already studied in other countries (van Hooft 2015; Andreani & Pulcini 2016).