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Tracing Metaphor Transformations in Translation of Fiction by Type and Density

Jacqueline Soto-Jurado * jakisotoo18@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0001-8022-7245 * ResearcherID: AAU-5586-2021
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2021, 4(1), 15-22 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0401.02015s
Received: 1 June 2021 ▪ Accepted: 18 July 2021 ▪ Published Online: 22 August 2021

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Violence against women in Mexico has surged over the last five years. Within this context, the song Querida Muerte (Dear Death) (2019) portrays the harassment experienced by Mexican women. Moreover, this song narrates some dangerous events that some women might have encounter living in Mexico. In this study, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is implemented as an approach for the examination of the song, applying the Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL) model by Halliday. The findings of this study demonstrate that this discourse was created as a demand for social justice and as an expression of the extent to which women are tired of being scared and in constant threat. The analysis based on the SFL model reveals that this song mostly uses declarative clauses, present tense, and negative adjectives.

KEY WORDS: critical discourse analysis, femicides, systematic functional linguistics.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Jacqueline Soto-Jurado, University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO. E-mail: jakisotoo18@gmail.com

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