Abstract

OLAYA AGUILAR, VICTORIA. Nicknames in Cartagena: towards a semantic typology. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.29-48. ISSN 0121-053X.

Language plays an important role in human life; through language, individuals can express their feelings and emotions, strengthen relationships with a group or keep distance from it. In other words, they can express their perspective of the world. That is why studying language not only allows the study of its structure, but also the analysis of interac tion between human beings, circumscribed in social space. Among these interactions we find the use of nicknames as a way to interpret reality, a very common practice in Cartagena, which is the subject of study in this paper. The purpose of this work is to characterize the nicknames used by members of this community from a socio-semantic point of view.

Keywords : Nickname; linguistic sign; semantics; motivation; arbitrariness; denotation; connotation.

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