Contrastive analysis of Peruvian slang from ten years ago to the present, 2019

Abstract

The following project is called "Contrastive analysis of Peruvian slang from 10 years ago to the present, 2019". This descriptive study aims to make a contrastive analysis of the slang that is still used nowadays with that used in the previous decade. The main objective of this research was to identify those terms that are still used, as well as those that are no longer used at the time of this study. Likewise, this research work provides a list of equivalent terms of those terms in disuse. The sample was made up of 60 first-year students from the Translation and Interpretation Program. For this purpose, a list of terms that have been the product of more than one previous investigation was used. They were categorized according to the intent of this research, that is to say, those that occur in the daily situations of university students (academic and not academic world). Subsequently, university students were surveyed on the continuing validity of these terms (those that are already in disuse and those that continue to be used). For those already in disuse, respondents were asked to provide an equivalent term. In this way we were able to verify if the term had suffered any alteration in its contextual use or not. It is hoped that the information obtained as a result of our research will serve as a basis for future studies leading to a better understanding of how slang works and how it changes over the years.