Usos lingüísticos de las actividades vinícolas riojanas

Abstract

The author shows the lexicon still used in the different activities related to winemaking in La Rioja, from those tasks prior to the grape harvest to the process of fermentation. She also discusses the tools and crafts associated with these activities, such as those of leather wine bottle makers, potters and coopers, and offers a linguistic characterization of the collected terms, which are used ever more rarely. The lexicon has been gathered from semi-directed conversations with people whose everyday tasks concern the most traditional aspects of wine-making, complemented with research into the bibliography on the Spanish spoken in the area. It is here presented descriptively, in the informants' discourses on wine-making activities in their contexts.