Estudio sociolingüístico del uso del kichwa en la parroquia Gima, provincia del Azuay

Abstract

This work has as main objective to investigate, from a sociolinguistic point of view, the use of Kichwa in three of the most remote communities in central parish Gima, Azuay Province. The theoretical concepts on which research is based are those of linguistic variability produced by social factors, bilingualism and diglossia, restricted code and the notion of substrate at different specificities. Theoretically, it is guided by the work of Francisco Moreno Fernandez (1998) and Salvador Gutiérrez (2009-2010). The field study and analysis of the collected data led to the conclusion that there are populations that still speak Kichwa in Gima parish, especially in the communities chosen for this research, but do so only in certain activities and certain spaces. On the other hand, the presence of Kichwa substrate in Spanish is noticed as well as phonological, morphological and lexical level.