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“B” (Accompanying My Daughter Through Life): Critical Discourse Analysis

Marcela González Hage * marcelaghage@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0003-1878-3755
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2021, 4(2), 51-60 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0402.02051g
Received: 9 June 2021 ▪ Accepted: 30 July 2021 ▪ Published Online: 24 October 2021

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
This study analyzes the poem “B” by Sarah Kay, through the interpretation of the various metaphors that compose it. This was poem was first published in 2011 and it is a love letter that the author sends the daughter she does not yet have. In order to do this a critical discourse analysis methodology is used (Fairclough, 1995), as well as an interpretation of the metaphors that are present in the poem (Lakoff, 2003).

KEY WORDS: Sarah Key, “B”, critical discourse analysis.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Marcela González Hage, Universidad de Guanajuato, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Guanajuato, MEXICO. E-mail: marcelaghage@gmail.com

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