Resumen

GUTIERREZ-RIVAS, Carolina. Exploratory Study about the Construction of Gender-Based Violence in Reggaeton Songs Sung by Female Singers. Núcleo [online]. 2010, vol.22, n.27, pp.49-70. ISSN 0798-9784.

The following is an exploratory study that intends to show how some linguistic structures found in reggaeton songs sung by women may promote gender-based violence in ways that are not perceived by the general public. For such purpose I selected data from four female reggaeton singers´songs: Adassa, Glory, Lorna and Ivy Queen, and performed a qualitative analysis focused on the rhetorical figure of the metaphor and the concepts of Denial of Agency and Pollution of Agency. I conclude that some language used in reggaeton may damage women´s integrity and image as social, autonomous and respectable entities.

Palabras clave : gender-based violence; metaphors; self-denial of agency; self-pollution of agency.

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