The article examines the role of food in shaping the Italian national identity based on the example of Italian football language in the most-read Italian newspaper entitled “La Gazzetta dello Sport” (www.gazzetta. it). At first, the concept of identity is analyzed and then its particular shades in the case of Italy and the attitude of Italians toward food, its importance and widespread occurrence within the entire country will be discussed. In fact, the food is a factor which seems to be a bonding element for all Italians and a means of expressing the current Italian national identity. The author identifies it as the Italian culinary identity. The phenomenon can be observed in such presently existing Italian culinary terms as cioccolatino, brodino, biscotto, spezzatino, mangiarsi un gol and the like that are used in Italian football news.
This paper focuses on the language of sports in the press, and its objectives are to analysethe specific linguistic features of the language of sports, to describe their function and to assert their possible impact on sports fans. By means of content analysis, a corpus of articles from a popular Italian sports newspaper, La Gazzetta dello Sport, was investigated in order to examine the stylistic properties typical of the language of sports. Indeed, all of the features described in this article’s review of literature on the language of sports were richly present in the corpus under scrutiny. Their role consists in forming opinions, creating attitudes and arousing emotional reactions among readers.
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L’obiettivo del presente articolo consiste nell’analisi dei caratteri linguistici tipici del linguaggio dello sport nella stampa italiana, nella descrizione della loro funzione e nella spiegazione della loro possibile incidenza sui tifosi-lettori. Dopo una rassegna critica della bibliografia concernente il linguaggio dello sport si presentano i risultati di un’analisi quantiqualitativa del corpus composto dagli articoli tratti dal quotidiano sportivo italiano La Gazzetta dello Sport. È significativo che nel corpus sottoposto a scrutinio si sia riuscito a constatare la presenza di tutti i mezzi stilistici descritti nella parte teorica. Essi sono dotati di una spiccata funzione espressiva, contribuiscono alla formazione dell’opinione, servono a suscitare reazioni, sentimenti e atteggiamenti ben precisi fra i lettori.
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