The Mapuche Public Discourse: the case of university students’ discourse

Abstract

The Mapuche public discourse studied up to now has been the one produced by leaders or representatives of organizations and events of the Mapuche people. A new type of Mapuche public discourse (mpd) is described in this work: the one produced by university students which shows the existence of a kind of discourse theoretically foreseen and close to the other ones of which no empirical evidence had been collected. Of the many theoretical problems derived from this work only one of them is studied: it has been observed that in the communicative event in this kind of discourse the Mapuche sender addresses another Mapuche as a receiver, seen as a conflicting feature with the norm of the Mapuche public discourse in which the receiver is the global Chilean society what seems to give the mpd a strong intracultural and non-intercultural.