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Feminism through Figurative Language in Contemporary American Songs of Leading Contemporary Feminist Music Icons |
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| Creator | Morakot Areerasada and Pataraporn Tapinta |
| Title | Feminism through Figurative Language in Contemporary American Songs of Leading Contemporary Feminist Music Icons |
| Publisher | Suranaree University of Technology |
| Publication Year | 2558 |
| Journal Title | Suranaree Journal of Social Science |
| Journal Vol. | 9 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 1-21 |
| Keyword | Feminism, ลัทธิสตรีนิยม, figurative language, ภาษาภาพพจน์, Song, เพลง, feminist music icon ,ศิลปินดนตรีผู้ยึดหลักลัทธิสตรีนิยม |
| ISSN | 1905-9329 |
| Abstract | The main objectives of this study are 1) to identify feminist values reflected incontemporary American songs of 'third wave' feminist lyricists (Madonna, Pink,Beyonce, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, and Kesha); 2) to analyze how those feministvalues are reflected in those songs through figurative language. The main theoreticalframeworks of four major perspectives of third wave feminism (Mann and Huffman, 2005), of figurative language (Perrine, 1977; Arp and Johnson, 2009; Straker, 2013),and of content analysis (Miles and Huberman, 1994; Coffey and Atkinson, 1996) wereapplied. The findings revealed that six major feminist values were expressed in thosesongs including the themes of women's 1) Ambition; 2) Survival; 3) Pride;4) Indiv idualism; 5) Liberalism; 6) Women's inferior social status and struggle for lifequality. These feminist values were commonly expressed through three commonf igurative devices1) metaphor; 2) simile; 3) parallelism. Of these three devices,metaphor was employed most frequently. This device of using shared backgroundknowledge of social values (e.g., beliefs and attitudes) between the lyricists, whoare considered as feminist icons, and their audiences through metaphoric symbols ofwomen's behaviors, outer appearances and characteristics, abilities, and so on seemsto show the most effective impact in promoting understanding of feminist sensationamong their audiences. In conclusion, song, which is a common contemporarygenre of literary work, can transcend feminist messages to the society effectively,and the intended messages appear powerful because of the use of figurative language. |
