Abstract

CEDIEL GOMEZ, YULIA KATHERINE  and  OLAVE ARIAS, GIOHANNY. Insult and Politics in Divergent Discourse: Case Study of the FARC-EP. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2019, n.33, pp.85-106. ISSN 0121-053X.  https://doi.org/10.19053/0121053x.n33.2019.8951.

This is a research about a corpus composed by communications of the guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia- Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), which was published between 2010 and 2012. The objective is to analyze the political dimension of the vituperation in the insurgent discourse. Through an inductive method, from grounded theory, the research describes the uses of utterances as an insult against the opponents, which are created by the insurgent discourse. Foremost, the research identifies the social and historical emergence conditions of the vituperative rhetoric. Then the research determinates the destination of the insults and, finally, shows how those uses are related with the polemic dimension of the public communications. The conclusion of the research is that the insult uses allowed the FARC-EP to create a parresiastic ethos, as a preparation for the insertion in the democratic system, where is becoming more common the use of the insults to get voters.

Keywords : argumentative rhetoric; Colombian armed conflict; political epideixis; vituperation.

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