ЯВИЩЕ ЛУНФАРДО ЯК СОЦІОЛЕКТ ІСПАНСЬКОЇ МОВИ В БУЕНОС-АЙРЕСІ, АРГЕНТИНА

Abstract

In this article we will analyze contemporary newspaper reports as well as criminological and sociological studies concerned with the life of the underworld in Buenos Aires, Argentina from the 1870s to the early 1900s will be analyzed to assess the association of lunfardo with the speech of the criminal as well as the imperfect Spanish spoken by Italian immigrants, and their influence in the development of Argentine Spanish. Linguistic contact, as a significant phenomenon, results in linguistic interferences. Language contact is the result of extra-linguistic phenomena such as cultural, economic, and political relations, as well as the cultural coexistence of mixed populations. The goal of this paper is to communicate language interferences, which can be defined as the transfer of elements from one language to another through changes in lexis, grammar, phonology, or orthography. Social communities, no matter their names, have not existed in isolation throughout history, but have established contacts of the most diverse nature with one another, resulting in mutual influences on various levels of social life. Language, as a social expression, bears witness to intercultural relations. This includes not only relations between official languages, or "main" culture carrier languages, but also relations between official languages and minority languages on a state's territory. These are different civilizations' communication media that end up evolving collaterally. Language interference is the transfer of elements from one language into another at various linguistic levels. Linguistic interferences, for example, are related to foreign aspects such as intonation, pitch, accent, and speech sounds from the first language influencing the second.