The language of the exiled during the independence war

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