Ni una menos : the conceptualization of femicides on facebook

Abstract

The present study analyzes the conceptual frames of the phenomenon “femicide” underlying Facebook interactions. This study brings together Critical Discourse Studies (2008), Cognitive Semantics (Cienki, 2007; Dancygier & Sweetser, 2014; Fillmore, 2006; Minsky, 1975; Ziem, 2014) and Gender Studies (Bourdieu, 2001; Cabrera Ullivarri, 2011; Segato, 2010; Warner, 1994). The corpus consists of a “polylogue” (Bou-Franch, 2013) made up of forty nine responses that appeared in the public Facebook event “Ni Una Menos Córdoba”, which invited to massive demonstrations on June 3rd, 2015 in Argentina.