Discursive analysis of Galician republican politicians in exile: the case of Alfonso Castelao

Abstract

The analysis of the speech of the leader galleguista Alfonso R. Castelao, declared in 1944 towards the Galician and Spanish community of Buenos Aires, it will allow to observe the discursive image that the speaker presents of yes same, opposite to that one. From the act enunciativo select, one will examine, first, the present frictions between a centralist conception of the Spanish State and the Galician nationalism. Secondly, the tensions will be investigated to the interior of the Galician collectivity, in relation with the diverse political - ideological used orientations: on the one hand, the sector linked to the political left side and on the other hand, the nationalistic Galician sector, of which Castelao was his maximum representative. In sum, we can emphasize two principal aims of the speech, linked to the attempts of the enunciador: first, of marking the existence of the Galician nationality and I come second, of be positioning as the authority to define his intrinsic features, while leader and representative of the Galician people.