Methodological proposal for the classification of the nicknames of Cuauhtémoc, Colima, Mexico
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Apodos, metodología, clasificaciónAbstract
In this article, we start from a corpus of 250 nicknames, collected in the communities of Quesería, Cuauhtémoc, Alcaraces, Buenavista and El Trapiche, published in the Apodario. Compilation of nicknames from the municipality of Cuauhtémoc, Colima, in 2024. The nicknames were collected through ethnographic research in which the five communities with the largest number of inhabitants in the northwest region of the state of Colima (Cuauhtémoc, Colima, Mexico) were visited. The participants were native of each community, adults over 30 years of age, both men and women. The nicknames were obtained through a semi-structured interview in which information was collected from family members, neighbors, relatives and friends. To systematize the data obtained, a registration form was designed. The nicknames were organized alphabetically, considering the following lexicographic information: nickname, type, definition, description, and analytical reflection.
Regarding the theoretical and methodological contributions of the reviewed studies on this subject, we observed that the first ones were conducted from a sociolinguistic perspective that emphasized life history. Subsequent research was taxonomically refined, achieving a more linguistic framework that emphasized the grammatical element; the latest approaches reveal a distribution and functional analysis of the types of words used to identify individuals. Our methodological proposal of classifying nicknames based on the grammatical, lexical-semantic, rhetorical, and hermeneutical levels seeks to emphasize aspects that provide identity traits of the subjects and reveal a particular worldview of the communities studied through the nicknames. In this sense, identity is seen, based on Gilberto Giménez (2010), as the representations that subjects have of themselves in relation to others and that constitute "who we are" and "who the others are," in this naming of ourselves and the world we inhabit.
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