Semiotic analysis of sexual eumphemisms and dysphemisms in Conversation in The Cathedral (1969), by Mario Vargas Llosa

• Autor: Quispe Mendivil, Yoselin
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/20663
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/tesis/article/view/20663
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Mario Vargas Llosa; semiótica; relaciones de poder; eufemismo y disfemismo sexual; semiotic; power relations; sexual euphemisms and dysphemisms

This research determines how the sexual euphemisms and dysphemisms enunciated by the characters in the novel Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), by Mario Vargas Llosa, operates as rhetorical instruments of intimidation and social coercion in the interlocutors. The image of the world that builds the speech of the peruvian nobel is also determined, as well as the figure of the narrator who has a tolerant and permissive vision with respect to non-heteronormative sexual behaviors. Finally, it is determined how power relations are, according to Foucault's (1982) proposal, which is why it is argued that they occur in the political, socioeconomic and sexual spheres. To carry out the study, the theoretical frameworks of the Semiotics of discourse, Tensive semiotics and the linguistic categories of euphemism, dysphemism, among others, are used.