“Oficina” or “despacho”? Lexical variation in Spanish in the corporate context

Abstract

This article intends to discuss the impacts of lexical variation in the corporate context in relation to the Spanish language. Its theoretical reference is Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics. In order to elaborate this research, a comparative study was carried out between an own corpus consisting of a set of usual words in the corporate context and the corpus of CREA (Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual) in order to verify the incidence of the use of these same words in countries such as Spain, Argentina and Mexico. It is believed that this article can facilitate the process of communication between secretarial professionals and foreigners who speak Spanish and contribute to the teaching and learning of Spanish for business.