Configuraciones culturales e identitarias en el lenguaje estudiantil de los jóvenes del área social de la Universidad de Cuenca: una mirada sociolingüística

Abstract

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.