Cocoliche and lunfardo in Argentinian Spanish: a sociolinguistic approach

The aim of this thesis is to characterize the Argentine Spanish phenomena cocoliche and lunfardo and their role in contemporary Argentine Spanish. The first part of the thesis focuses on the definition of theoretical terms such as social class, linguistic variety and language contact, which are crucial for the classification and further characterization of both phenomena. In the next part, the author examines the phenomena of cocoliche and lunfardo, explaining their origins, evolution and the historical-cultural context of the emergence of these phenomena as well as the current tendencies of use in Argentine Spanish. Based on a questionnaire survey, the author specifies the type of communicative situations and the frequency of usage of selected lunfardisms. In addition, the analysis of the data obtained in situ is enriched with the results of the perception of some lunfardisms from the perspective of Argentine speakers. Finally, the conclusions are contrasted with the results of a quantitative analysis carried out in the form of a corpus search in El Corpus del Espa?ol del Siglo XXI. On the basis of the results of the empirical part of the work, an etymological glossary is compiled