El uso del lenguaje coloquial en los cumplidos en una población universitaria

Sergio Lopera Medina

doi:10.17533/udea.lyl.20213

Authors

Sergio Lopera Medina University of Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.20213

Keywords:

colloquial language, compliments, DCTs

Abstract

This article describes the use of colloquial language in compliments in a university population in Medellín, Colombia. As a research instrument, a discourse completion test (DCT) was administered to 740 participants. The DCTs were analyzed using Cratilo software program and not only the morpho-syntactic level and the lexical-semantic level (Briz, 1996) were taken into account in order to describe the colloquial language, but also the following variables: sex, age, socioeconomic status, and relationship with the university. Results support that Medellinenses use exclamatory sentences introduced by qué,and an interjection (oh, uh, eh, uy, ay) usually accompanies them in order to intensify the force of the compliment. Also, that students, males, people from socioeconomic status level 1 and 2, and people of ages from 18 to 30 tend to use more colloquial language.

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Author Biography

Sergio Lopera Medina, University of Antioquia

PhD student in linguistics, master's degree in linguistics and specialist in didactics of foreign languages at the University of Antioquia. He works as a full-time professor at the Language School of the University of Antioquia. Her research areas are pragmatics, specifically compliments, content-based instruction (CBI), and reading proficiency in English as a foreign language.

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