They kill our girls in people’s faces: affectation datives as a fight symbol
Gender-based violence, understood as a structural matter that jeopardizes human rights and fundamental liberties, is an enormous social issue in Argentina. Public demonstrations claiming justice for femicides’ victims have become recurrent. Taking into account this scenario, the main aim of this wor...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/37847 |
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| Sumario: | Gender-based violence, understood as a structural matter that jeopardizes human rights and fundamental liberties, is an enormous social issue in Argentina. Public demonstrations claiming justice for femicides’ victims have become recurrent. Taking into account this scenario, the main aim of this work is to discursively analyse a popular song that is frequently evocated in many demonstrations as a calling for justice due to femicides: “Señor/vecino, señora/vecina, no sea indiferente, nos matan a las pibas en la cara de la gente” (Mister/Neighbour/Miss, don’t be indifferent, they kill our girls in people’s faces). Our hypothesis is that the use of the dative pronoun nos is in the present case an affectation dative that grammaticalizes an strategy whose communicational aim is to present femicides as a problem that involves the society as a whole and not only women, who are the direct victims.
The work is framed within the Prototype Theory in cognitive linguistics that states a conception of grammar as emergent. In this perspective, signs are analysed accordingly to their use in order to find the motivation that leads the speaker to produce a specific form in a certain context. |
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