Linguistic Configuration of Anglicisms from Twitter in US Spanish

Abstract

The origin of this research is the elaboration of a dictionary of Anglicisms of the Spanish of the United States. In order to incorporate anglicisms of recent introduction in the US Spanish, we proceeded to the search of messages emitted in the social network Twitter gathering a great corpus of messages that, through the application of successive filters, allowed to obtain a final relation of more than 500 candidates of anglicisms that could be incorporated into the dictionary. This paper provides a contextualized analysis of a list of candidates to anglicisms elaborated by the application of a search method in the corpus. This analysis allows to make decisions about which anglicisms can be incorporated into the dictionary and which cannot, according to the purposes of the lexicographical repertoire. Moreover, the linguistic analysis of the forms finally selected for its inclusion into the dictionary reveals the profile of the anglicisms that are being introduced in US Spanish, in their orthographic, grammatical and lexical-semantic dimension.