Fictional Orality and Identity: The Case of Chabela in Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

This paper studies the fictional orality in Chabela’s direct speech, a character in Hurricane Season (2017), by Fernanda Melchor, and how it contributes to the configuration of the character’s identity. To this end, we focus on Chapter V of the novel, which is based on dialogues between Chabela and Norma. We have considered several studies on spoken colloquial Spanish (Briz Gómez; Gaviño Rodríguez; Narbona Jiménez), in order to present a classification of colloquial strategies employed by Chabela, in the syntactic, lexical-semantic, and pragmatic-contextual levels of language. It is concluded that a more or less stable set of colloquial elements is employed for the configuration of the character. Finally, based upon the concept of identity proposed by Charles Taylor, we conclude that Chabela’s identity has been built on her particular use of the language, at the same time it is reflected in it.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6593
• Fecha de publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/12870
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/article/view/14781; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/12870
• Palabra clave: oralidad fingida; español coloquial; identidad; temporada de huracanes; fernanda melchor; literatura mexicana; Oralidade fingida; idioma falado; identidade; literatura mexicana; Temporada de furacões; Fernanda Melchor; fictional orality; spoken language; identity; Mexican literature; Hurricane Season; Fernanda Melchor
• License: Derechos de autor 2023 La Palabra