Análisis crítico del Diccionario de americanismos. Hacia la construcción del Diccionario académico de habla del Ecuador, letras a-h

Abstract

The following research has as its main objective analyze the mottos from Diccionario de Americanismos (DA) as they lack of the diatopical mark referred to Ecuador, thus using textual corpus and contrastive works in order to validate or discard voices incorporated in the Diccionario académico del habla de Ecuador (DAHE). To perform this research, it was applied a methodological design with a mixed style approach: qualitative and quantitative, as well as an observational, prospective, transversal and descriptive research. The applied procedure consisted in bring every motto under revision, and make an approach to the electronic corpus (newspapers and Ecuador literary works). The obtained results showed that a 2.11% reviewed mottos from DA should be amended; from that percentage, 64% of they should include the mark Ec, as it was demonstrated that they are voices used in Ecuador as well; the 27%, as well as adding the mark Ec, it should possess a new meaning; lastly, the 9% simply has to edit the motto or its meaning in order to respond in a better way to the Ecuadorian speech