This thesis focuses on the study of student jargon in the social area of the University of Cuenca
from a lexicographic and sociolinguistic perspective, disciplines that allow us to focus, as an
object of analysis, on the lexicon of a specific social context: that of the students of the social
area of the University of Cuenca, for whom student slang is a particular social communication
tool that establishes a code different from standard Spanish and allows them to differentiate
themselves from others, belong to a group, encrypt their messages, etc. So, to achieve this
objective, a lexicographic methodology was used, in the first instance, that allowed compiling
a corpus of 164 terms and writing their respective lexicographic entries with information on
each one. Likewise, in a second instance, its linguistic particularities were studied: lexical,
semantic and stylistic changes, and the use of rhetorical and literary figures, which together
constituted loans from foreign languages and changes of registers.
