La construcción léxico-semántica del miedo en la obra autobiográfica de niñez de Maya Angelou

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https://doi.org/10.17561/rilex.9.2.9849

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emoción, miedo, lexicología, marco semántico, Maya Angelou, niñez negra femenina

Resumen

Este artículo se centra en la construcción léxico-semántica del miedo en la primera obra autobiográfica de Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). A través de un análisis lexicográfico y de la aplicación del marco FrameNet, este estudio examina el discurso de emoción y el encuadre semántico del miedo. El análisis revela que el miedo es la emoción más frecuente en el texto, con un alto grado de variación léxica y matices semánticos. Aunque se emplean algunos sustantivos, verbos y adjetivos de perfil general (como afraid, fear, scared y to fear), en el texto de Angelou aparece con frecuencia un grado medio o alto de intensidad del miedo mediante elementos como dread, panic o terror. Se sugiere que el miedo rara vez se enmarca como una reacción momentánea o instintiva, sino que se construye como una condición emocional persistente, moldeada por el género, la raza y los contextos sociales. Los resultados muestran que los elementos nucleares que componen el marco semántico del miedo en la narrativa de Angelou deben estar presentes para verbalizar su expresión y que al menos tres de ellos aparecen en todos los ejemplos analizados: [Experiencer], [state] y [Stimulus]/[Topic]. Al integrar perspectivas lingüísticas, cognitivas y socioculturales, este estudio contribuye a la ampliación del campo de la lexicología y la lexicografía cognitiva de la emoción, y pone de relieve la complejidad y especificidad cultural del miedo en el discurso autobiográfico de la niñez negra femenina.

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2026-07-28

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Fernández Soriano, B. (2026). La construcción léxico-semántica del miedo en la obra autobiográfica de niñez de Maya Angelou. RILEX. Revista Sobre Investigaciones léxicas, 9(2), e9849. https://doi.org/10.17561/rilex.9.2.9849