“La Familia Burrón”: emblem of the mexican culture and language
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2015-04
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“This thesis reports a descriptive study of the informal language used by the Mexican comic named “La Familia Burrón”. This study was carried out in Puebla City. The main purpose of my project was to analyze the informal expressions used by this comic and how this language changed or evolved in order to be adapted to the different ages in which “La Familia Burrón” was published. The research data were collected via analysis of some of the different texts published from 1948 to 2009. The research found “La Familia Burrón” has many and different informal synonyms for things and expressions for happenings. This is because the family needed to be portrayed as belonging to and representing a certain Mexican social class who feel more comfortable using non-standard expressions than standard expressions. Findings also revealed some expressions are more popular and common than some others. Also, in the same way there are several non-standard synonyms for a single thing, which makes it impossible the use of all of them. While one aim of the study was to trace the changes in the informal expressions, I could not analyze the evolution of the expressions because of the limitations presented which are described in Chapter 5.”
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