“Basta que me enamores – o que me mandes flores”: género, experiencia y emociones en el corpus del pop-rock en español

Abstract

The discourse of song lyrics can be depicted as a mirror and as a mould of social life: It reflects, but also stimulates, certain practices and subjectivities. Using a corpus of 1 000 pop-rock lyrics in Spanish and techniques from corpus linguistics, socio-semiotics, and psychological text analysis, this study explores the discourse of lyrics from a gender perspective, focusing on the experiential function, affect and emotional vocabulary. Its findings suggest the existence of significant gender differences in the choice of process types and of emotional vocabulary, and thus in the linguistic articulation of experience according to the singer's gender.