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2021 - Volume 4 - Number 2

“Que nadie te arrebate esta partida”: An Analysis of a Historic Mexican Women’s Manifestation Journalist’ Article

Clara Mejía-Hernández * mhclara@hotmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-1868-0214
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Arts, 2021, 4(2), 41-46 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsa.0402.01041m
Received: 12 June 2021 ▪ Accepted: 5 November 2021 ▪ Published Online: 17 December 2021

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Femicide events in Mexico has become a crisis along the country. The journalist’ article Que nadie te arrebate esta partida (2020) wrote it by the journalist Gabriela Warkentin sheds light through to the relation between femicide and three recent female stories. The present paper is based on critical discourse theory and Halliday’s (1978) Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to scrutinize the journalist’ article. Besides, the present examination considers the importance of draw attention to the increasing prevalence of femicides as a national concern.

KEY WORDS: critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, femicide, transitivity.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Clara Mejía-Hernández, Universidad de Guanajuato, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, MEXICO. E-mail: mhclara@hotmail.com.

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