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    Análisis léxico-semántico de la jerga juvenil del cantón Cuenca en el ámbito del cuerpo y sexualidad
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2022-03-11) Chica Apolo, Ambar Jelissa; Villavicencio Quinde, Manuel Gonzalo
    The current investigation aims to explore how teenagers and young adults from the city of Cuenca use language in terms of sexuality and the human body. For this, an analysis of a corpus of 935 slangs, their formation processes, and their relationship with the sociocultural reality is displayed. The research is structured in two dimensions: a) A lexical and semantical dimension, through the analysis of the formation processes and the use of slangs in language; and b) A sociocultural dimension analyzed by the recognition and description of the symbolic, identity and gender constructions which produce relationships of power, reification or violence in the use of language from teenagers of Cuenca. The investigation is a synchronic linguistic study applied to teenagers and young adults from 15 and 24 years old; it uses a mixed methodology as the data was collected through a probabilistic sample, structured interviews and ethnography techniques. Besides that, sociolinguistic principles are used to the analysis, and lexicographical ones, to the construction of a dictionary. The results show that the 55% of the corpus agreed with the category “body”; 33% with “sexuality” and 12% related with “gender”
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    Cheers to language! youth slang and its relationship with alcohol
    (2022) Villavicencio Quinde, Manuel Gonzalo; Chica Apolo, Ambar Jelissa; Novillo Verdugo, Miguel Ángel
    This article is circumscribed within a larger project and seeks to analyze the field of alcohol in youth slang in the city of Cuenca, to reflect to what extent the different terms and expressions make up a socio-cultural imaginary in which drinking is concomitant with the daily practices of young people, such as sex, drugs, food, study, sports and other forms of leisure and fun. The methodology used begins from the lexical-semantic study of a corpus of approximately 5,000 forms, through the elaboration of a taxonomy (types of drinks, quantity, consumption, states and effects), and a lexicographic analysis, which suggest the presence of semantic changes, from rhetorical figures, mainly metaphor and metonymy, which causes the joy and delight on the part of its users.