Juicios y actitudes lingüísticas en el Perú y su reflejo en las novelas de Jaime Bayly

Abstract

Jaime Bayly’s novels show the literary treatment of linguistic conflict that characterizes Peruvian Spanish. Following Coseriu’s ideas about speakers as linguists and Giles’ psychosocial theories about accommodation, in the present study we analyze the judgements that the main characters utter about Spanish. According to them, Spanish has become an ethnicity marker of a given social group and they react against linguistic phenomena belonging to the Andean variety. If we consider that this variety shapes Peruvian Spanish, it would be of interest to study what high-class members think about it. Even if we deal with fictional works, these attitudes could depict a real situation.