Social-psychological repertoire of the colombian conflict in the presidential discourse of Juan Manuel Santos

The present study aims to analyze the discourse of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos during his first term (2010-2014) when the peace dialogue between the Government and the FARC-EP began. For this, the one-dimensional and multidimensional methods of lexicometry statistics were used, seeking to characterize the pronouncements based on variables audience type (national vs. international) and time of issuance (before vs. after the beginning of the dialogues). Appeals to hope related to the objectives of peace, the recognition of the rights of the victims and the structural causes of the conflict, as well as the absence of strategies of delegitimization of the adversary, suggest a change in the social cognitive scheme that characterized the presidential discourse.