The dualism between North and South Italy has played a very important role in the construction of national identity and structures most of the political and media discourse on the state of our country still today. It is commonplace to assume that at the time of the Unification of Italy, the country was divided into an advanced modern North and an economically and socially backward South. Such constructions of meaning are rooted in broader currents of thought that at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have contributed to outlining the profound otherness of the European south and have partly fuelled the Italian Risorgimento. The present paper intends to trace some reflections on the linguistic-discursive ideologies that have nourished the North-South dualism and outlines a long-term research path.
Riassunto: Il dualismo tra Nord e Sud Italia ha avuto un ruolo importantissimo per la costruzione dell’identità nazionale e ancora oggi struttura gran parte dei discorsi politici e mediatici sullo stato del Paese. È un luogo comune ritenere che, al momento dell’Unità d’Italia, il Paese fosse diviso in un Nord progredito e moderno e un Sud arretrato economicamente e socialmente. Tali costruzioni di senso sono radicate in più ampie correnti di pensiero europee che a cavallo tra XVIII e XIX secolo hanno contribuito a tratteggiare la profonda alterità del meridione europeo e hanno in parte alimentato le imprese risorgimentali italiane. Il presente contributo intende svolgere alcune riflessioni sulle ideologie linguistico-discorsive che hanno alimentato il dualismo Nord-Sud e delineare un percorso di ricerca di lunga durata.
Primi spunti per un’analisi del discorso sulla questione meridionale: materiali, metodi, prospettive
Orrù, Paolo
2019-01-01
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The dualism between North and South Italy has played a very important role in the construction of national identity and structures most of the political and media discourse on the state of our country still today. It is commonplace to assume that at the time of the Unification of Italy, the country was divided into an advanced modern North and an economically and socially backward South. Such constructions of meaning are rooted in broader currents of thought that at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have contributed to outlining the profound otherness of the European south and have partly fuelled the Italian Risorgimento. The present paper intends to trace some reflections on the linguistic-discursive ideologies that have nourished the North-South dualism and outlines a long-term research path.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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