Abstract

This paper focuses on how male reggaeton singers depict women in their songs. Our aim is to find out the features of this depiction and, on the other hand, to compare our results with the results obtained in a previous work of songs of female singers. To make it possible, the pragmatic perspective is adopted as methodological model, to identify which linguistic units are the accurate ones to explain our topic. Thus, the analysis of the most popular male singers in Spain between 2018 and 2021 has revealed that personal pronouns and possessives are the units that indicate how is the conception of the women and the relationship between locutors and allocutaries displayed in the songs. The latter allow us to conclude that, although women and men share some constituents of that musical genre, each one has also different ways to practice it

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