Abstract

AGUIRRE LONDONO, John Jairo; MOLINA RIOS, Juliana Angélica  and  ROMERO CHALA, Bibiana Yaneth. Lexico-semantic Analysis of the "Buen Pastor" Prisioners speech. Leng. [online]. 2013, vol.41, n.1, pp.35-57. ISSN 0120-3479.

This article presents part of the results of the research study Criminal argot used in the "Buen Pastor" jail of Bogotá. The sample includes a corpus of lexias, which are described from a semantic approach, focused on motivation phenomenon and lexical creation. The discussion focuses on both the theoretical delimitation of speech variety and the mechanisms of meaning construction, such as: neologisms, synonymy, polysemy and semantic transformation. The results highlight the function and meaning of this argot and its signic productivity, as well

Keywords : argot; special languages; motivation; lexicon; prison.

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