01187nas a2200133   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100003000043245008300073856006200156300001000218520081100228022001401039                                       d1 aJesús Ramírez Martínez00aEl uso social de los apodos como discurso sintético en las sociedades rurales  uhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extart?codigo=3715543  a49-713 aThis work provides an account of the universality of nicknames and their continuance in rural societies, as well as their everyday use as identifiers and as a nexus of coexistence. They constitute a rich, intangible heritage in agricultural societies because of their extensive network of semantic and pragmatic relations. At the same time, they also constitute the essence of a type of synthetic discourse that is highly profitable because of its linguistic economy, albeit remaining highly expressive and creative. It comes in epigraphs that explain the social use of these appellations, taking into account its linguistic, social, sociolinguistic, discursive and scientific dimensions. The corpus of nicknames used in this study is taken from several towns in the central Iregua Valley, La Rioja, Spain.  a1601-1686