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    Análisis léxico-semántico de los regionalismos en los mercados de Cuenca, Ecuador
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2023-08-30) Tenecota Arpi, Walter Patricio; Ortiz Ordóñez, Gabriel Nicolás; Villavicencio Quinde, Manuel Gonzalo
    Sociolinguistics studies language in its social context to analyze how social and linguistic variants are linked to the communicative act and characterize a given speech community. For this reason, language will always be in constant confrontation, since how a language is used will depend on the topographical, age, generational and ethnographic factors of its users. In this sense, the present study seeks to analyze, from a variationist perspective, the presence of regionalisms in the markets of the city of Cuenca, recognizing that, in these spaces, the registers of three regions are found and coexist: Coast, Highlands and East. Taking as a research method the ethnographic technique proposed by the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Spain and America (PRESEEA), 221 articles have been collected, which has allowed us to conclude that the speech of the Coast obtains a greater linguistic prestige, quichuismos are an important element in the lexicon of the Sierra and the presence of regionalisms from the Ecuadorian East, in the markets, are almost null. Parallel to this, we find that the use of regionalisms is mostly in lexical forms (subjects, verbs, adjectives and phraseological forms (locutions). With this, we can affirm that market users adapt their speech in the buying/selling process to improve their options and to promote and generate an atmosphere of trust between traders and buyers.