El cambio lexemático como signo antropológico en dos versiones de un cuento tradicional

this paper analyzes a new version of the well-known story "the wicked blacksmith and the devil", spread around a semi-urbanized area inhabited by migrants from the argentine coastal zone. the starting point is the concept of meta-code as a specific group interaction mode. oral narratives may be considered as part or expressions of such meta-codes and, therefore, their analysis will be more complex, in order to understand the text within its contexts and in its ideological context. it is necessary, then, to resort to a narratological methodology which rescues oral narratives' discursive strategies, as well as to a linguistic and semiotic methodology which rescues pronouncements and observes their significance with respect to intertextual, extratextual and contextual relations.