THE LANGUAGE OF THE EXILED DURING THE INDEPENDENCE WAR

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.