The objectives of this presentation are twofold: Firstly, to describe some features that define the linguistic variety used by Bolivian migrants in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, through the records obtained from different community celebrations, aiming to keep the memory of their own history alive in a foreign land. Secondly, to contribute to the (re)vitalization of Bolivian cultural identity and, therefore, the traditions that accompany them in this new territorialization.

Both language and images allow us to approach the different forms of performativity that emerge in various communicative instances, whether verbal or gestural. The data I will be working with comes from a personal videofilmed corpus, which not only includes oral records of the variety of Spanish used by migrants in La Plata, resulting from their contact with Andean Spanish and Quechua language, but also individual and collective images that reflect the community’s persistent efforts to maintain their traditions in the new territory.