Correntino Spanish Memes and the Enregisterment of Argentine Guarani Loanwords
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Justin Pinta (0000-0003-2422-1871) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 165 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages8030165 |
| OpenAlex | W4383909040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
The intense contact between Guarani and Spanish in the Argentine province of Corrientes has produced a wide array of mutual contact effects, the most visible being widespread borrowing in both directions. This article examines a previously unreported feature of Argentine Guarani loans in Correntino Spanish: the social value they have acquired. Building on the growing body of work in sociolinguistics on internet memes, which are sites of phenomena rich in sociolinguistic value, an analysis is provided of Argentine Guarani loans in Correntino Spanish using an original corpus of memes collected from Correntino Instagram pages. Such memes, whose intended audience is monolingual, are a valuable source of Correntino Spanish features, which are used for humorous, ironic, or nostalgic effect. Via analysis of the relationship between these loans and the kinds of memes they appear in, I show that these loans have undergone enregisterment, i.e., they have taken on additional social meaning that allows them to index a complex variety of ideological stances toward Correntino social phenomena and character types. The results of this process evidence the fact that language contact, as an engine of variation, creates fertile ground for the emergence of social meaning and that memes are a productive and promising window into the (re)creation and evolution of such meaning
Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Sign (mathematics · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Artificial Intelligence · Law · Philosophy
Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century
Discourse Particles
Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization
Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life
“One does not simply categorize a meme”
The Social Media Reader
The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture
El Guaraní Correntino
Why Don't All Contact Features Act Alike? Contact Features as Enregistered Features
An anatomy of a YouTube meme
Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese
Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function
Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions
Variation and the indexical field 1
Three Waves of Variation Study
Cash me ousside
The California Vowel Shift and Gay Identity
Accent, (Ing), and the Social Logic of Listener Perceptions
Language and Social Relations
The social life of cultural value
Modal particles and their functional equivalents
The Symbolic Capital of Social Identities
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |