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

Abstract

This research studies the student language of young people in the health area of the University of Cuenca, from a sociolinguistic perspective and considering that youth jargon is a particular social communication tool that establishes a different style from the standard code. The objective is to know and value the peculiarities of the university student group and their ways of communicating, to include them as active and productive members within Cuenca's society, culture and academy. The methodology is descriptive and qualitative: ethnography of speaking and uses the semistructured interview technique; Furthermore, it is supported by a dictionary plant created exclusively for this study, which organizes the arrangement of the entries for the language studied. As a result, 198 terms created and adapted by university students have been collected through lexical, semantic and stylistic changes; use of rhetorical and literary figures; foreign language loans and record changes. The conclusions highlight four aspects: grammatical categories, with a total of 154 nouns, 29 adjectives, 8 verbs, 6 adverbs, 5 plurals and 1 exclamation; rhetorical creation mechanisms, lexical-semantic 96 terms, morphological 72 terms, phonological 25 terms and the syntactic 5 terms; the terms and their classification according to the fields, among the first three places stands out student with 65 terms, occupation with 22 terms and subjects with 17; and, finally, by semantic fields, the finding of 60.61% dedicated to specialized jargon and 39.39% to student jargon. In general, it is concluded that young people use language to differentiate themselves as a group and that the reformulation of specialized terms can be understood as a process of appropriation of the terminology of the discipline