El lenguaje de los 55 días que cambiaron Italia. Análisis de los documentos escritos por las Brigadas Rojas durante el secuestro de Aldo Moro

Abstract

This article analyzes the language used by the Red Brigades in the drafting of the nine documents which were written and circulated from the period of Aldo Moro’s kidnapping until his death. After those 55 days, from the political point of view, Italy changed significantly. The «historic compromise» proposed by Enrico Berlinguer and embraced by Aldo Moro ceased to exist, the Italian Communist Party distanced itself from the government and started losing support. The Christian Democratic Party, which had lost a lot of power by the time, regained strength and continued to remain firmly in the government for several years. The Red Brigades, on their part, continued perpetrating violent actions. In their texts it is clear that the language adopted comes closer to a political communication rather than a criminal discourse. The vocabulary and the morphosyntactic structures follow the characteristics repeated in each of the nine reports, thus gathering the idea of a unitary corpus with concrete characteristics.