Prestigio y estigmatización de 60 nombres propios en 40 sujetos de nivel educacional superior

Abstract

In this paper we present the results obtained after applying a survey that probed the attitudes of prestige or stigma that 40 subjects of higher educational level (university) had about 60 names. We results show that some names are systematically related to prestige/high social stratum and others with lack of prestige/low social stratum. It also shows the answers related to stigmatization (names which may cause laughter and are associated to low social stratum) are more compact than the ones related to prestige (names with which they would be popular and are associated to high social stratum) because they concentrate similar number of votes in less names. Finally, we conclude that among the subjects surveyed there is a high awareness of the linguistic norm, especially among female subjects.