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Research on lexical availability intends to have access to the lexicon used by the speech community members in certain communicative situations. The aim of this paper is to account for the foreign lexis found in a corpus specifically built to serve the purposes of a research project on the social conditioning of the available lexicon in Malaga town (Consolex-Project). We identified three different levels of lexical foreignness in accordance with the latest Real Academia Española (RAE) standards: foreign words, accepted foreign words and adapted foreign words. Here, we analyse the use of this particular foreign lexis and examine its correlation with the speaker's background and social stratification. Results tend to confirm both the initial hypothesis of a gradual loss of the traditional dialect lexis and parallel convergence towards the use of standard and even international words, especially by the youngest and most educated speakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]