{"title":"“B” (Accompanying My Daughter Through Life): Critical Discourse Analysis","authors":"Marcela González Hage","doi":"10.32591/coas.ojsl.0402.02051g","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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).","PeriodicalId":245453,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0402.02051g","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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).