Análisis léxico-semántico del habla de los jóvenes en el ámbito del licor en las zonas urbanas de la ciudad de Cuenca, una mirada sociolingüística

Abstract

The jargon is the speech of a generation that has a particular repertoire and social functioning. In this titling work, the language of the liquor used by young people in the urban area of the city of Cuenca was analyzed from the lexical-semantic perspective. Our objective was to analyze, from the variational approach, how the lexical-semantic procedures in juvenile jargon create and create areas of (in) communication, in relation to the language used by the adult generation in its different areas: study-work, leisure-music-fun and body-sexuality-love. In the same way to present lexical-semantic variants that distinguish this group of speakers with other slang. For that reason, the developed purposes were: to analyze said variants or terms, to create a glossary of the corpus compiled with definitions and analysis of rhetorical figures. Finally, this communicative phenomenon was compared with standard language. The methodology implemented is ethnographic in which semi-structured interviews were used, using the technique of calculating the sample of a universe selected for convenience. The results obtained suggest that this speech is legitimate and necessary in the communicative context of said group, and should not be considered as strange or abnormal, but as divergent and heterogeneous within a homogenized society. It is suggested for future research to establish synchronic and diachronic approaches in which it is possible to determine reasons why the individuals belonging to these groups, encrypt the language, generating lexical marks, typical of their discourses.