The aim of the paper is to offer a lexicological and semantic study of Mexican prison slang during the Porfirian era as it is appreciated in the “Prison Slang Vocabulary” that is included in the costume novel La Chaquira (Belén por dentro), by Francisco García González, published in instalments in a Mexican newspaper El Relámpago during 1894 and 1895. Attention will be paid to its structure (patrimonial vocabulary, Nahuatlisms, Anglicisms, etc.) and to principal word formation processes that can be found there. Another aim of study will comprehend its comparison with other Hispanic prison slangs, mainly the Spanish one, from the historical point of view. This historically focused comparison and analysis will show directions of evolution that would allow us to interpret this jargon
as properly Mexican.
Keywords:
prison slang, historical lexicology, word formation, semantic change, Mexican Spanish
Buzek, I. (2018). Mexican prison slang during the Porfirian era and its hidden lexicography: a case study. Boletín De Filología, 53(1), pp. 35–61. Retrieved from https://boletinfilologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/50636
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