ANÁLISIS DEL HABLA DE MONSERRATH ASTUDILLO

Abstract

Sociolinguistics is the discipline that deals with the study of a language in relation to society. One of the aspects covered in this field is the difference in language according to gender. It is a remarkable fact that men and women have a different way of speaking. It has been stigmatized that, in general, men tend to use a vernacular vocabulary more frequently than women. A descriptive and qualitative investigation was carried out through non-participant observation that consisted of the analysis of the speech of the Ecuadorian actress Monserrath Astudillo in six different videos from the YouTube platform. For the most part, the theory agrees with the results. However, interesting discoveries were made that showed that the aforementioned actress possesses certain linguistic characteristics that do not agree with most women. Several videos show how Monserrath uses a vernacular vocabulary spontaneously and uses a lot of body language, which is not very common in women. It is also observed that her speech is extremely frontal without using any idiom to soften her sentences. Among the conclusions we have the fact that perhaps her work and the scripts she manages for it somehow influence her speech.