Análisis crítico del diccionario de americanismos. Hacia la construcción del diccionario académico del habla de Ecuador, letras i-z

Abstract

This research project analyzes and discusses the diatopic marks about the Dictionary of Americanisms of mottos which include the letters from I to Z. Through a critical review that allows the development of an Academic dictionary of the speech of Ecuador. This analysis has some failures, omissions or updates of original meanings which have to be corrected and discussed. It circumscribes the lexicographic aspect and diatopic mark. Each motto was contrasted with the Ecuadorian Language Academy Corpus (press and national literary works) and it endorses or not as ecuadorianisms through concrete used examples which are taken from that corpus or from lexicographic reference works. Due to the importance of this research, the project is linked to the Ecuadorian Language Academy which main objective is to support the construction of a differential, semasiology, descriptive and dialectical dictionary of Spanish distinctive features in Ecuador. Hence, the need to rescue our linguistic heritage.