Il nostro lessico è diventato “virale”. Il vocabolario dell’emergenza sanitaria, economica e sociale ai tempi della pandemia di COVID-19

Papp, Judit

doi:10.24193/subbphilo.2021.1.22

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“…Similarly, in photo 2, one can read "siamo più di un assembramento" ("we are more than a gathering"), sprayed on the wall. The pandemic, as already mentioned in this contribution and as observed elsewhere (Spina, 2020;Papp, 2021;inter alia), had also affected the language, which evolved and changed, first of all on the lexical level, leading to a "terminological pandemic." The term "assembramento" (gathering) is one of those that entered the family lexicon of the pandemic following its use in the Prime Minister's decrees and speeches during the first wave of COVID-19.…”

Section: Stratification and Contradictionssupporting

confidence: 66%

“Everything will be all right (?)”: Discourses on COVID-19 in the Italian linguistic landscape

Bagna

Bellinzona

2023

Front. Commun.

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The study of the linguistic landscape (LL) focuses on the representations of languages on signs placed in the public space and on the ways in which individuals interact with these elements. Regulatory, infrastructural, commercial, and transgressive discourses, among others, emerge in these spaces, overlapping, complementing, or opposing each other, reflecting changes taking place and, in turn, influencing them. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of life, including cities, neighborhoods, and spaces in general. Against this background, the study of the LL is fundamental not only to better understand the ways in which places have changed and how people are interpreting and experiencing them but also to analyze the evolution of COVID-19 discourses since the pandemic broke out. This contribution aims to investigate how and in what terms the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the Italian LL, considered both in its entirety, as a single body that, regardless of local specificities, responded to and jointly reflected on the shared shock, and specifically, assuming the city of Florence as a case study. The data collected in the three main phases of the pandemic include photographs of virtual and urban LL signs and interviews, which were analyzed through qualitative content analysis with the aim of exploring citizens' perceptions and awareness of changes in the LL of their city. The results obtained offer a photograph of complex landscapes and ecologies, which are multimodal, multi-layered, and interactive, with public and private discourses that are strongly intertwined and often complementary. Furthermore, the diachronic analysis made it possible to identify, on the one hand, points in common with the communication strategies in the different phases, both at a commercial and regulatory level. On the other hand, strong differences emerged in the bottom-up representations, characterized in the first phase by discourses of resilience, tolerance, hope, solidarity, and patriotism, and in the second and third phases by disillusionment, despair, and protest.

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Section: Stratification and Contradictionssupporting

confidence: 66%