Discursive Influence in the Dialectal Geography of Spanish In The United States

Language is the main means of human expression and, as such, is an essential component of culture that evolves in parallel with societies. It is in this context that our study was born, in which we propose to analyse the discourse in Spanish used by Spanish speakers in the United States, specifically in the states of California and New York, from a phraseological perspective. In this way, through the Hispanic press, we explore the linguistic diversity, the influence of English and the situation of diglossia that characterises Spanish in North America today. Given the vastness of the phraseological field, the analysis focuses on a specific set of phraseological units: verbal idioms. In addition, the present study incorporates perspectives from sociology of language and sociolinguistics to consider the relationship between discourse and social structure, and from cognition to analyse the pragmatic component that is fundamental to linguistic evolution within a given society. This research provides a comprehensive understanding of how Spanish discourse adapts and transforms in a bilingual and multicultural context, reflecting the underlying socio-cultural dynamics.