Open AccessGaucho and huaso as key concepts in the Argentine and Chilean world
Author(s) -
Galina Romanova
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
iberoamerikanskie tetradi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-5219
pISSN - 2409-3416
DOI - 10.46272/2409-3416-2018-4-38-43
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , lexicon , key (lock) , globalization , order (exchange) , sociology , history , linguistics , political science , law , philosophy , economics , computer science , finance , operating system , computer security
The theme of the article is framed in one of the main areas of modern linguistic research- a historical-cultural approach in the semantic studies of the lexicon. The national varieties of the Spanish language, given their undoubted unity, present distinctive characteristics, rooted in the distant historical past and, nevertheless, the chronotopic factors continue determining the semantic destinies of the words coming, etymologically, from the same roots. Gaucho and huaso, having developed from the same original sources, came to denote similar figures of rural life in Argentina and Chile, respectively. But the evaluative components, the use and, even, the graph, have been modified with the passage of time, and the voices continue their divergent course, despite the fact that globalization and market laws force them to play image roles in order to sell the “country brand” better.