Abstract

ESPEJO OLAYA, María Bernarda. The Imaginaries of Irrationality through Zoomorphic Metaphors in the Literature of Colombian Violence. Folios [online]. 2020, n.51, pp.17-31.  Epub July 03, 2020. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.51-10900.

The objective of this reflection article is to analyze the denominations that the victims or perpetrators received in the context of the violence novel, which refers to the period of bipartisan violence that Colombia experienced during the 1950s and 1960s. For this, Violence canon novels that presented the phenomenon of zoomorphic metaphorization were taken and formed a database. The methodological design focused on the exploitation of the data, for which quantitative and qualitative criteria were followed. The theory of metaphors of Lakoff and Johnson (1985), the motivational approaches and lexical creation of Montes (1983) were considered. Also, some theoretical approaches of scholars on Violence in Colombia. The zoomorphic metaphors found in the Violence Literature represent an undoubted dehumanization in the conflict, which makes the characters act like animals and feel that their enemies and other human beings are animals that can be used, attacked, maimed or killed without remorse. This shows how language reflects social and historical changes as changes in the valuation of human life in the midst of war, since these forms of expression through an animalization language show a close relationship between language and worldview which show, on the one hand, the language and, on the other, the culture of that particular historical moment.

Keywords : bipartisan violence; zoomorphic metaphors; violence literature; dehumanization.

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