Léxico disponible de Castellón. Estudio y diccionarios

Abstract

This research is part of a panhispanic investigation on the available Spanish vocabulary. The main finding is to determine this vocabulary in a representative sample of preuniversity students in the bilingual áreas in the Castellón province. We have determined the covariation among certain linguistic variables (semantic centers of interests) and some relevant social factors (gender, location and type of secondary school, mother tongue, an the educational level of students). Results are compared with other similar studies. At the same time, lexical tranferences have also been analyzed between the languages in contact in the Valencian Community (Catalan →Spanish). Moreover, the use of anglicisms among youns speakers in Castellón is also studied as an example of the increasing influence of the Anglosaxon culture in the área.