TY - THES AU - Engra Minaya, Sara AU - Florentino Paredes García (dir. tes.) AU - Isabel Molina Martos (dir. tes.) T1 - La construcción de la identidad en la población joven LGTB+ de la Comunidad de Madrid: usos lingüísticos LA - spa PY - 2025/06/06/ SP - 1 EP - 672 PB - Universidad de Alcalá AB - This doctoral thesis studies the construction of the identity of young LGTB+ people from Madrid through linguistic resources. Specifically, three linguistic phenomena potentially related to gender expression and queer identities have been selected: the use of LGTB+ terms (maricón, bollera and other terms related to homosexuality, heterosexuality and the LGTB+ community), the use of different elements in English (also called translanguaging practices or code-switching) and the use of diminutives. Three corpora were collected in order to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse identity construction: a corpus of linguistic attitudes towards the words maricón and bollera, a digital Twitter-corpus built from various LGTB+ terms and an oral corpus featuring queer and cisheterosexual speakers from Madrid under 35 years of age with higher education. The results show that people from the LGTB+ community use terms related to this group in a different way to heterosexuals: we found an inoffensive and identitarian reclamation of maricón and bollera, which coexists with the traditional offensive use of these words, as well as a certain abandonment of the term homosexual in favour of others such as gay or lesbiana; we also discovered that the speakers use hyperonyms that designate the whole LGTB+ community in a descriptive way, while the hyponyms related to this collective are more affiliative. At the same time, it was found that participants employ English to index queer identities, although the use of diminutives does not seem to be directly related to the LGTB+ community. The work, which is very novel in the Hispanic field, falls within the fields of sociolinguistics, language and sexuality studies and queer linguistics. It also draws on ideas and analytical frameworks from third-wave variationist sociolinguistics. UR - https://portalcientifico.uah.es/documentos/68d2e055f4c9ce76a75909e6 DP - Dialnet - Portal de la Investigación ER -