Diccionario de mexicanismosDiccionario de mexicanismos

Publisher Annotation: Espasa reaffirms its prestige as the publishing label that brings together the fundamental linguistic works of our language. The Dictionary of Mexicanisms. Own and shared collects the lexicon of millions of Mexicans who use, in their day to day, a vocabulary different from that of other dialects of the Spanish language; a linguistic universe that defines us and gives us entity and identity as Mexicans; that is, the one that grants a specific character. This work has a vocabulary that belongs to various regions of the country and to different semantic fields: popular genres, gastronomy, clothing, sexuality, general culture, ethnic-linguistic groups, as well as botany and zoology. It also offers terms whose origin is in other languages, mainly Nahuatl, Maya, English and French. In total, it contains: 10,587 lemmas or lexicographical articles; 431 sublemmas -forms of a motto that generate new meanings; 22,333 meanings, and at the end, a list of exclusive voices from Mexico. Mexico, 832pp.