Análisis léxico-semántico de la jerga juvenil del cantón Cuenca en el ámbito de las drogas

Abstract

Sociolinguistics is an actual interdiscipline whose object of study is language in its social context. Its objective is to define in which way social and linguistic variants are involved in the communicative act and characterize a specific group. Thus, juvenile slang is the speech of a generation that possesses a particular social functioning. This study mainly attempts to analyze, from a variationist perspective, how lexical-semantic procedures in the juvenile jargon shape a particular imaginary around the drugs field (dealers, users, types of drugs, among others) in comparison with the language and cultural imaginary of the adult generations. This synchronous study will be carried out within the framework of the DIUC-2019 research project: "Cultural and identity configurations of young people in the urban area of the Cuenca canton: A sociolinguistic perspective”, directed by Dr. Manuel Villavicencio, PhD.