This study analyzes the electoral debate of 2016, specifically the confrontation between the candidates Fernando Olivera and Alan García. It was decided to work with this corpus, since a contrast is evident in the pragmalinguistic strategies used by both candidates; therefore, the main objective is to demonstrate each of these strategies. In the first part of the study, the content of the political discourse of both candidates is analyzed, for this the functional theory proposed by William Benoit (2007) is used. Based on this analysis, the second part describes the pragmalinguistic resources present in the speeches of each one of them. It is concluded that both candidates present differences in the content of their message: while Fernando Olivera’s speech has a denigrating propensity, Alan García has a propensity for silence. Likewise, the most widely used pragmalinguistic resources ...

This lexicographic study defines the novel euphemisms and dysphemisms in the sexual field present in the novels Los inocentes (‘The innocents’) (1961) and En octubre no hay milagros (‘In October there are no miracles’) (1965), by Oswaldo Reynoso. This, in order to contribute to the research on sexual euphemisms and dysphemisms in Peruvian literature. These novels have been chosen as a corpus of study because they present a profusion of euphemistic and dysphemistic sexual terms that represent the popular language of Lima youth in the 1960s. In addition, presents the definitions of the sexual euphemisms and dysphemisms, including simple and compound words, which are not recorded in the Diccionario de americanismos en línea (DA) 2010 or in the Diccionario de la lengua española en línea (DLE) 2021. Most of these words allude to genital organs, non-heteronormative sexual relations,...