Consolidation, Construction and Fashioning of a « Self », or the Way in which Language Models a given Reality. (The Case of the Letters of Relation of Hernán Cortés)

The present study uses concrete examples to give a detailed analysis of the way in which conquistadores and cronistas [chroniclers] fashioned their “self”, with the objective of convincing a real and virtual receptor that their behaviors regarding the events were justified. For this, each author mak...