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2020 - Volume 4 - Number 2

Critical Discourse Analysis of “Canción sin Miedo” by Vivir Quintana

Verónica Andrea Escobar Mejía * veronicaescobarmejia@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-9195-6942
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, MEXICO

Open Journal for Anthropological Studies, 2020, 4(2), 51-60 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojas.0402.02051e
Received: 16 October 2020 ▪ Accepted: 29 November 2020 ▪ Published Online: 8 December 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
The feminist movement in Mexico has recently gained attention due to the diverse manifestations along with the country. The song Canción sin miedo (2020) portrays elements that keep a relationship with the feminist ideology, as well as recent events that are depicted in the lyrics. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is presented as an approach to examining the song, using Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model and parallelism analysis. The outcomes of this study suggest that the song was produced as a claim for social justice, but it involves elements that generate a sense of identity for some women because their roles and struggles are depicted in the lyrics, principally femicide. Additionally, the parallelism analysis shows three syntactical structures that compose the body of the text. This examination is also a call for noticing the emergence of violence against women in Mexico.

KEY WORDS: critical discourse analysis, feminist ideology, systemic functional linguistics, parallelism.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Verónica Andrea Escobar Mejía (MA student), University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato MEXICO. E-mail: veronicaescobarmejia@gmail.com.

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