Los mexicanismos como expresión de la identidad cultural y la resistencia femenina en Como agua para chocolate de Laura Esquivel Análisis lexicológico-computacional

The present work seeks to present an overview of computational linguistics applied to the analysis of a contemporary narrative work, with the primary purpose of conducting a lexicological-computational study of the use of Mexicanisms in Laura Esquivel’s novel Like Water for Chocolate, considered an emblematic work of Latin American magical realism. This literary production constructs a deeply rooted Mexican cultural identity grounded in the popular and the everyday, while simultaneously articulating the female resistance against the symbolic structures of the patriarchal order. Parallelly, this research proposes an innovative methodological model aimed at exploring the confluence of language, culture, and gender within the field of the context of Latin American literature, with the potential for application to other narrative corpora. Through the implementation of advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques and automated textual analysis procedures, the study systematically examines the role of regional lexicon—particularly Mexican expressions—in the discursive construction of cultural identity, as well as in the configuration of narrative strategies of female resistance against the symbolic frameworks embedded in the novel. From this computational lexicological perspective, the corpus will be processed to identify lexical units, especially Mexicanisms, including regionalisms, archaisms, colloquialisms, and culinary lexicon. This approach allows not only the quantification and classification of these elements, but also the detection of lexical recurrence patterns that reveal their stylistic, symbolic, and ideological functions within the narrative discourse.