El habla de Mérida

Abstract

The doctoral thesis The Speech of Merida emerges as an update of the linguistic investigation made by Zamora Vicente in 1943 on "The speech of Mérida and its vicinity". The demographic, social and cultural changes of the extremenian capital have affected, indisputably, to the inhabitants of the city; for this reason, seventy years later, we thought that it was essential to conduct a study to check the linguistic evolution of Mérida in the XXI century. Our research is formed for five sections. In the first chapter, we present the importance of the study by Zamora Vicente in the field of research in dialectology at that time, in both Spain and Europa; besides, we note the main demographic, social and cultural changes that have occurred in Mérida in recent decades... Moreover, in the state of the art (the second chapter), we present a description of the main sociolinguistics models and their application to current research; and we present also a bibliographic recession of the extremenian speech. In the third chapter, we present our research methodology and we show the extralinguistic variables, the population simple and the strategies for data collection and the selection of informants. In the fourth chapter, we present the sociolinguistic analysis of the phonetic and phonology of Mérida and, finally, in the fifth chapter, we make a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the lexicon of the city. With this research we want to contribute to the study of the speech of Extremadura and, besides, to Hispanic sociolinguistics.