Abstract

MENDOZA, Martha. The literary representation of a linguistic variety: Cuentos de barro de Salarrué. Káñina [online]. 2017, vol.41, n.2, pp.143-157. ISSN 2215-2636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rk.v41i2.30480.

The analysis of a literary text can be enriched by the identification of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical features used to recreate the effect of a particular language variety and its regional and/ or social characteristics. At the same time, identifying such features allows us to gain specific knowledge about how writers project a sense of orality in their prose and how effective they are in doing so.

Thus, this article focuses on the most prominent linguistic strategies employed by El Salvadorian author Salvador Salazar Arrué (Salarrué) in his work Cuentos de Barro to represent the speech of this relatively understudied linguistic variety of Spanish and how such strategies effectively contribute to recreate a sense of orality in the author’s prose.

Keywords : Spanish language; language variety; El Salvadorian Spanish; literary dialect; orality.

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