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El léxico argótico en el Vocabulario de mexicanismos de Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1899)
| Title in English | Argotic vocabulary in the Vocabulario de mexicanismos de Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1899) |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The aim of the communication is to study how the lexicon of low social classes of the Mexican society of the times of the Porfiriato (2nd half of the 19th century) is treated in the Vocabulary of Mexicanisms by Joaquín García Icazbalceta, which unfortunately was left unfinished. The structure of the argotic lexicon (patrimonial, loans, lexicogenetic processes and semantic change present) will be studied in detail and attention will be paid to the sources used by the author to document the voices in question. In this communication the dictionary is taken as a source that can be used for the study of the history of Mexican slang at the end of the 19th century, taking into consideration that a dictionary is primarily a lexicological corpus that testifies the social reality of its times. The history of the speech of the underworld of Mexican society is one of the gaps in the literature on the diachrony of Mexican Spanish and the present communication seeks to fill this gap in this area. |