Belong and Social Control. The Use of Nicknames among the Deltas

Abstract

This article looked for to discuss the use of the nicknames among a group of youths of the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, here denominated Delta. The nickname acts as a mark in the onomastic of the group and, it is taken to the creation of a new being in and for the world, it also implies in the search of surpassing the individual limits and of the objectivity of the reached improvement and of the effort for the full acceptance in the group. It reinforces the perspective of there to be only individual in the group and not the existence of
individuality possibility without of the collective, making to emerge the subject of power in the group’s system of nomination. The onomastic acting, through the constant incentive to the mea culpa, transform the act of individual remembrance in a form of collective control and, simultaneously, in the possibility of emergency of a
new one being. The nomination system and the remembrance practice than left through the nicknames they seem to act, finally, in the direction of an individual renaissance, and to make like this, they create again the group for the permanence and structuring of its presence inside each subject and enter the members in relationship.