Tintiando en La Aurora: Recovery of the Coffee Oral Heritage

Abstract

In this paper, the results of the project “Tintiando en la Aurora” will be socialized, whose purpose is to collect and to spread short stories that were interwoven in coffee farms of Caldas. And also to gather them in a book that underlines the narratives as socio cultural practices of paisa people. As a research collaborative chain, the purpose of Tintiando en la Aurora emerges from the classroom project “Cuentos y Leyendas del Café”, where the students of the subject Introduction to Sociolinguistics, in a prior phase, collected a corpus to be summarized and examined through the analysis models of Dell Hymes’s speech ethnography and Labov’s narrative sintaxis. In this new phase, the students of the Sociolinguistics research group, based on the previous analysis, established selection criteria for the material in order to describe and understand the linguistic and sociocultural aspects that are underneath the legends and stories of coffee oral tradition. Finally, it presents a work that allows to recognise and to spread coffee stories to contribute to maintaining and to preserving the cultural heritage of Caldas through the application of different strategies that foster the recognition and valuation of this patrimony. It was socialized through classroom workshops.