El impacto de la migración en la fraseología del español en los Estados Unidos: un estudio comparativo de California y Nueva York

Abstract

This comparative study aims to analyse the impact of migration on Spanish phraseological diatopic variation in two American states: California and New York. For this purpose, a sample of verbal locutions extracted from the Hispanic press in both regions was collected, a phraseological corpus of 362 units was created and compared with the verbal locutions of mainland standard Spanish. The phraseological comparison was carried out from various fields of linguistic knowledge, considering sociolinguistic and cognitive contributions to phraseology. The results show that, in both California and New York, there is significant diatopic variation in phraseology compared to standard Spanish. This variation, a result of the demographic characteristics of each region, is largely attributed to the linguistic influence present in both regions, especially English and other Hispanic variants, such as Mexican Spanish in the case of California and Caribbean Spanish in the case of New York. This paper aims to provide a significant contribution to the field of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics in the context of migration and the evolution of the Spanish language in the United States.