Análisis léxico-semántico de la jerga juvenil del cantón Cuenca en el ámbito del amor y la amistad

Abstract

Sociolinguistics are relatively a new discipline whose objective is the analysis of the language within its social context. It looks to define how the social and linguistic variants are linked to the communicative process, and to characterize a specific group. In context, youth jargon is the language of a generation that has a repository and a particular social functioning. From the variationist perspective, the main purpose of this research is to analyze in which manner the jargon semantic-lexicon processes set up a particular imaginary regarding the love and friendship environment, in comparison with the cultural imaginary and language of elder generations. This synchronous study will be conducted within the framework of the research project “Configuraciones culturales e identitarias de los jóvenes de la zona urbana del cantón Cuenca: Una mirada sociolingüística”.