Análisis léxico semántico del habla de los internos de la Comunidad Terapéutica “Hogar Crecer” de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

In the present work, an investigation is developed on the speech of the inmates of the therapeutic community "Hogar Crecer" of the city of Cuenca. The objective is to perform a lexical-semantic analysis of the linguistic variants in the speech of this particular group of young people. The research was carried out from an ethnographic study with the implementation of semi-structured interviews through, the sample in a universe of thirty young people of which five of them have been selected to register the best possible number of their linguistic use. Variables in use. They helped us to collect the terms that helped us develop a basic glossary. It is thus demonstrated that linguistic phenomena emerge in the jargon of the inmates, which are signified in particular contexts and whose uses function in contexts creating new words. In this way, it can be asserted that the language of the inmates creates a connection between the consumer environment and group understanding, very necessary to hide the purchase and consumption of drugs. For these reasons we consider it very important to encourage and encourage more research like the present, in other youth social groups of the city to preserve their speech, a fundamental element of the development of civic culture.