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RIOJA, Alicia. Diachronic and synchronic study of linguistic variation of tunante for the rescue of cruceñas words: an approach from cognitive linguistics and Labov's variationist sociolinguistics. Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2024, n.36, pp.7-32. ISSN 2306-8671.  https://doi.org/10.56992/a.v1i36.465.

The article focuses on the linguistic investigation of the word tunante, an element of the identity of the region of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, which is undergoing a process of disuse in everyday discourse. The objective is to analyze the linguistic change of tunante from both a diachronic and synchronic perspective. In the diachronic analysis, the research explores how the use and meaning of the word have evolved over time, while the synchronic analysis investigates the variation in its use and meaning in different sociocultural contexts at a given moment. The fundamental literary reference comes from the song "El trasnochador" by the poet Raúl Otero Reich (Otero Añez, 2018), where the word Tunante is found in the lines: "Yo soy el trasnochador / tunando en la oscuridad..." However, the coexistence of different conceptualizations of tunante in the same territory and time generates possible misunderstandings. Therefore, the study will employ the prototype theory of Cognitive Linguistics and the variationist theory of Sociolinguistics as methodological foundations to develop an objective approach that contributes to the compilation of a dictionary that rescues and preserves the different conceptualizations. For the data collection, the sources are the Diachronic Corpus of Spanish (CORDE), the Reference Corpus of Current Spanish (CREA), the Corpus of 21st Century Spanish (CORPES) V. 1.0 by the RAE, as well as novels, anthologies, and other research works produced in Bolivia. Diachronic findings will address linguistic change and historical contexts of tunante, while synchronic findings will explore sociolinguistic variations in usage and meaning.

Palavras-chave : Linguistic research; linguistics variation; sociolinguistics; Comparative linguistics; speeches; conceptualization.

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