Abstract

ESCORIZA MORERA, Luis. LEXICAL VARIATION.: SOME DIFFICULTIES AND PROSPECTS. Lingüística [online]. 2012, vol.28, n.1, pp.247-273. ISSN 2079-312X.

Despite the importance of linguistic variation for linguistic description, the study of the phenomenon has been almost reduced to the phonetic level in sociolinguistics. Through the analysis of specific lexicography and semantic literature we can distinguish two main reasons to explain the small number of lexical variation research: the theoretical definition of variants and the methodological aspects related to collecting data. However, research carried out at the University of Cadiz shows the prospects and usefulness of this kind of studies.

Keywords : sociolinguistics; variation; lexicology; lexicography.

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