About the problem of sociolinguistic research of a marginal lexicon: the gitanismos present in non-standard variants of Spanish

Abstract

The paper focuses on the problematic of gitanismos that are present in non-standard variants of Spanish. After a general characterization of gitanismos and its contextualization in the European frame, we resume the methodological experience and preliminary results of our qualitative and quantitative sociolinguistic research conducted between 2007-2012.

Keywords

• non-standard Spanish
• argot
• sociolinguistics
• methodology
• qualitative research
• quantitative research.