For this research work, a corpus of semi-guided interviews was created from the questionnaire proposed by the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Spain and America (PRESEEA). The informants are young people between the ages of 18 and 34 who have completed high school, have grown up in the Monseñor Lezcano neighbourhood, one of the oldest in the municipality of Managua, and currently live in the same locality. From the transcripts of the recordings, the conversational markers of the oral discourse of the young people were identified with the help of Word Smith software, in order to classify them according to the proposal of Martín and Portolés (1999) in markers of epistemic modality, markers of deontic modality, focusers of otherness and conversational metadiscursives. Finally, the pragmatic functions of these discursive units were described.

The purpose of this study is to identify the linguistic attitudes of Spanish speaking people in Managua and Masaya towards the six varieties of Central American Spanish: the Spanish of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. From a mentalistic approach, based on the responses to the productions of the informants of each country, we analyze cognitive and affective aspects of the linguistic attitudes of the citizens of Masaya and Managua. Among the relevant results, regarding the cognitive aspect of linguistic attitudes, we observe that the respondents know their own linguistic variety and that of Costa Rica, while they do not know the Spanish variety of El Salvador. With respect to the affective component, a favorable linguistic attitude towards the Central American varieties of Spanish is expressed, with the exception of Guatemalan. However, the majority would...