Publication details

El léxico carcelario durante el porfiriato

Title in English Prison slang in the Porfirian era
Authors

BUZEK Ivo

Year of publication 2017
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The aim of the paper is to offer a lexicological and semantic study of Mexican prison slang during the Porfirian era as it is appreciated in the “Prison Slang Vocabulary” that is included in the costume novel La Chaquira (Belén por dentro), by Francisco García González, published in instalments in a Mexican newspaper El Relámpago during 1894 and 1895. Attention will be paid to its structure (patrimonial vocabulary, Nahuatlisms, Anglicisms, etc.) and to principal word formation processes that can be found there. Another aim of study will comprehend its comparison with other Hispanic prison slangs, mainly the Spanish one, from the historical point of view. This historically focused comparison and analysis will show directions of evolution that would allow us to interpret this jargon as properly Mexican.

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