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The language of the exiled during the independence war

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Central Dossier
Abstract: 
After exposing briefly the main theoretical framework of the political thinking and metaphorology, the article analyses the main features of the language used by the exiled-under the charge of being a menace to the independentist movement - in the letters directed to the political authorities of the newborn republic twice during the uprising emancipatory - in the year 1813, during the ruling of José Miguel Carrera, and between 1817 and 1818, during the ruling of Bernardo O`Higgins. Afterwards, it is concluded that along the process there was an important transformation of the discursive repertoire used by the exiled, from a predominance of sensitive body experience as a talk resource field to a predominance of the resources linked to legality and the praising of the Americanist cause
Number of pages: 
165-186