Political discourse in its various forms and expressions is characterised by the use of phrasemes, including slogans, proverbs, quotations, etc. It also features the so-called «emologismi» (cf. Antonelli 2017: 6), that is to say words, phrases and formulae that function as «emoticons» aiming to impress voters by focusing attention on the emotional aspects of the discourse. Moreover, in the multimedia age, posts published on social media become an efficient and powerful medium used by political parties to present and support their ideas in an attempt to appeal to voters and hold their attention. The corpus-based analysis focuses on idiomatic phrasemes, their semantic and pragmatic characteristics as well as on some functions they perform in such election campaign posts. Because of the immediacy and intelligibility of these phrases, they can give emphasis to the text or provide a concise explanation of a passage. In addition, they can also help to negatively connote a political opponent, contribute to the self-presentation of politicians, or – not least – to favour their contact with the voters. In particular the modification of idioms plays furthermore an important role (Elspaß 2007: 288) thanks to their metaphorical features as well as their expressive potential. The analysis is carried out on a corpus consisting of the posts of some German political parties on the occasion of the federal elections on 24th September 2017.
Il linguaggio della politica si caratterizza, tra le altre cose, per l'uso di fraseologismi, slogan, citazioni, ecc. Tra questi vi sono i cosiddetti “emologismi” (cfr. Antonelli 2017: 6), ossia parole, frasi e formule che funzionano come “emoticon” e mirano a impressionare gli elettori attirando la loro attenzione sul livello emotivo del linguaggio. Al giorno d'oggi, sempre più politici utilizzano i post sui social media per rivolgersi ai loro potenziali elettori e presentare le proprie idee o i propri programmi elettorali. L’analisi si concentra sui fraseologismi idiomatici, sulle loro peculiarità semantiche e pragmatiche e sulle funzioni che svolgono nei post della campagna elettorale. Grazie alla loro trasparenza ed espressività, possono contribuire non solo a enfatizzare e rendere più incisivo e convincente il testo, ma, eventualmente, anche a creare un'immagine negativa dell'avversario politico. Inoltre, i fraseologismi possono assumere una funzione di contatto e sono spesso utilizzati nella autorappresentazione degli stessi politici. In particolare, le loro modificazioni sono rilevanti per il loro suggestivo effetto stilistico e al loro potenziale espressivo (Elspaß 2007: 288). La presente analisi si basa su un corpus di post selezionati su Facebook di esponenti di partiti tedeschi in occasione delle elezioni federali del 24 settembre 2017.
Idiomatische phraseme am beispiel von wahlkampf-posts deutscher politischer parteien
Ilaria Meloni
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2020-01-01
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Political discourse in its various forms and expressions is characterised by the use of phrasemes, including slogans, proverbs, quotations, etc. It also features the so-called «emologismi» (cf. Antonelli 2017: 6), that is to say words, phrases and formulae that function as «emoticons» aiming to impress voters by focusing attention on the emotional aspects of the discourse. Moreover, in the multimedia age, posts published on social media become an efficient and powerful medium used by political parties to present and support their ideas in an attempt to appeal to voters and hold their attention. The corpus-based analysis focuses on idiomatic phrasemes, their semantic and pragmatic characteristics as well as on some functions they perform in such election campaign posts. Because of the immediacy and intelligibility of these phrases, they can give emphasis to the text or provide a concise explanation of a passage. In addition, they can also help to negatively connote a political opponent, contribute to the self-presentation of politicians, or – not least – to favour their contact with the voters. In particular the modification of idioms plays furthermore an important role (Elspaß 2007: 288) thanks to their metaphorical features as well as their expressive potential. The analysis is carried out on a corpus consisting of the posts of some German political parties on the occasion of the federal elections on 24th September 2017.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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