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Linguistic Politics

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Linguistic Politics is the study of how language influences power dynamics, social structures, and political processes. It examines the role of language in shaping identity, ideology, and governance, as well as the implications of language policies and practices on societal inequalities and cultural representation.
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Linguistic Politics is the study of how language influences power dynamics, social structures, and political processes. It examines the role of language in shaping identity, ideology, and governance, as well as the implications of language policies and practices on societal inequalities and cultural representation.

Key research themes

1. How do political institutions shape the recognition and status of minority languages?

This research area scrutinizes the relationships between forms of political governance—especially power-sharing versus power-concentrating institutions—and their influence on minority language recognition and policies. Understanding this dynamic elucidates how political structures can either facilitate or hinder linguistic rights and cultural representation, impacting sociopolitical stability and minority inclusion.

Key finding: The paper identifies that power-sharing political institutions (such as proportional electoral systems, parliamentary forms, and federalism) are statistically less likely to recognize minority languages due to decision-making... Read more
Key finding: This review expands political economy as a crucial framework for applied linguistics research, highlighting how neoliberalism and social class intersect with language use, education, and work. It situates political... Read more
Key finding: Through historical comparative analysis, the paper reveals how British Anglicist and Soviet Russification policies enacted centralized linguistic dominance to impose cultural hegemony in colonial and post-colonial contexts.... Read more
Key finding: The work theorizes linguistic identity as fundamentally political and relational rather than instrumental or natural. It problematizes the notion of language as a fixed object, arguing that its existence depends upon social... Read more

2. How does political discourse analysis elucidate the relationship between language and power in politics?

This theme explores the examination of political language not only as communication by politicians but as a site where power relations are produced, maintained, or contested. Political discourse analysis integrates linguistic, sociological, and cognitive methods to reveal how language shapes political identities, ideologies, and legitimacy, thus unpacking the role of discourse in governing, mobilizing, and influencing public opinion and political behavior.

Key finding: The paper systematically traces the development of Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) contextualizing it within linguistic and political turns in social sciences. It highlights PDA's dual focus on analyzing political texts... Read more
Key finding: This study differentiates narrow and broad conceptions of political discourse—from speech acts by politicians in institutional contexts to wider political communication encompassing media and internet discourses. It... Read more
Key finding: The paper situates political discourse in a philosophical and social context, arguing that language and politics are inseparable. It underscores the need to critically analyze political language for manipulative strategies... Read more
Key finding: From the perspective of translation studies, this chapter reveals how translation mediates political discourse across cultures and languages, and how translators’ choices are embedded within political agendas and power... Read more
Key finding: The article situates political language within the global spread of English varieties, explicating how political discourse is a vehicle for power, ideology, and identity negotiation in multilingual societies. It identifies... Read more

3. How can critical and corpus linguistic methods advance the study of language ideology and its political implications?

This research trajectory investigates language ideology as an intersection of beliefs about language that are both explicit and implicit, shaping social structures and power relations. Employing corpus linguistics alongside discourse analysis, scholars aim to uncover underlying ideological patterns in language use in political contexts, revealing how language reflects, reproduces, or challenges political power and social inequalities.

Key finding: The paper innovatively applies corpus linguistic tools to language ideology research, enabling the identification of implicit and explicit ideological manifestations in large textual datasets. By examining newspaper corpora,... Read more
Key finding: This critique exposes how dominant linguistic theories embody ideological assumptions aligning with individualistic, rationalist, and universalist models that inadvertently support neoliberal capitalist frameworks. It argues... Read more
Key finding: By analyzing political lexical choices in party communication and social media, this study demonstrates how specific language use reconfigures conceptual knowledge and public understanding of liberalism. It elucidates the... Read more

All papers in Linguistic Politics

Conferencia. Calechos d'hibiernu 2025. Cona llei na mano: el llionés y la súa (des)protección legal. Llión, 21.II.2025
Figure del padre fra Addio Lenin e Alla luce del sole Fabrizio Miliucci 105 In scena, in compagnia, in ascolto. Lo scrittore di musica Giulio Carlo Pantalei 116 M'être/maître: Vincenzo Cerami, o l'elogio della secondarietà
https://libre-media.com/2025/02/27/histoire-et-litterature-sans-elles-impossible-de-comprendre-le-monde Histoire et littérature : sans elles, impossible de comprendre le monde dans Libre Média, le 27 février 2025 L’enseignement de la... more
FR Les langues en Europe pourraient n'être qu'un enjeu culturel, mais elles sont un enjeu pleinement géopolitique et l'objet de luttes sourdes et bien réelles au sein même des institutions qui tournent autour du caractère hégémonique de... more
FR Le plurilinguisme européen est-il toujours d'actualité ? Il y a un paradoxe à poser cette question, car toute la réglementation linguistique de l'Union européenne est fondée sur le plurilinguisme ou le multilinguisme. Pour notre... more
nelle brevi note dedicate a Pasolini per la sua Letteratura dell'Italia unita, aveva individuato nei due romanzi romani «le migliori prove narrative di Pasolini e un fatto tra i più interessanti del passato decennio», osservando come la... more
Pier Paolo Pasolini, un’esistenza turbolenta e non convenzionale è senza dubbio definito uno dei più importanti intellettuali del secondo dopoguerra aso il grande esponente della nuova Italia democratica, di cui fu molto critico. Una... more
Two different projects unite in this paper. First, a study of the characteristic register used in Spanish TV series Acacias 38. Second, an application of the conclusions in that study to a learning experience in the context of Spanish... more
Riassunto: Concentrandosi in particolare sugli aspetti della variazione linguistica, questo studio mette a confronto le due traduzioni francesi a opera di Louis Bonalumi e Jean-Paul Manganaro de Quer pasticciaccio brutto da via Merulana... more
Nascita della televisione e contributo all'unità linguistica del paese.

Mike Bongiorno e il maestro Manzi maestri di italiano
The Language of Gadda 's Quer pasticciaccio. Like those prototypical modernists, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, Carlo Emilio Gadda poses a stylistic challenge never fully met by writers who follow. But I believe we must look beyond the... more
in «Strapparsi di dosso il fascismo»: l’educazione di regime nella «generazione degli anni difficili», a cura di Rosanna Morace, Napoli, La scuola di Pitagora, 2023
Dans cet entretien Vanessa Alaya, etudiante en master recherche LLCER parcours etudes italiennes (Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier) interroge la romanciere italienne Evelina Santangelo sur l'ecriture de son roman Senzaterra... more
Dans le cadre d'entreprises internationales sont produites nombre de communications exolingues : il faut communiquer alors que les interlocuteurs n'en possedent pas tous les moyens linguistiques. De fait, ces situations peuvent... more
Il fascismo riveste grande interesse dal punto di vista linguistico; nel progetto di costruzione di un'Italia nuova, il regime si propose infatti di disciplinare l'intero repertorio linguistico italiano su due direttrici: il controllo... more
من البَدَهي أن منظومة القيم العربية والإسلامية هي حصيلة لصراع إنساني، له أبعاده التاريخية والاجتماعية والحضارية المتباينة، التي ما انفكَّت تبسط ظِلَّها على حياتنا، والتي يمكن أن تستجيب لأبعاد الحاضر ومعطياته المختلفة. ولمّا كان من المفترض... more
Le recenti affermazioni di Susanna Tamaro al Salone del libro di Torino, rilanciate dagli organi di stampa («ci sono testi davvero difficili e anche brutti. Basta con Verga»), sarebbero di per sé risibili per l'indecoroso suggerimento... more
من البَدَهي أن منظومة القيم العربية والإسلامية هي حصيلة لصراع إنساني، له أبعاده التاريخية والاجتماعية والحضارية المتباينة، التي ما انفكَّت تبسط ظِلَّها على حياتنا، والتي يمكن أن تستجيب لأبعاد الحاضر ومعطياته المختلفة. ولمّا كان من المفترض... more
O artigo analisa uma situação em que trabalhadores fortemente estigmatizados têm níveis de renda mais altos do que aqueles que os estigmatizam. Desta forma, afirmamos que na cidade patagônica de Comodoro Rivadavia há um desajuste entre... more
Trata-se de uma discussão a respeito da vivência sob a medida do distanciamento social a partir da percepção de pessoas surdas e de uma pessoa surdocega. Objetivou-se analisar as representações discursivas da pessoa surda e surdocega... more
Scopo dell’articolo è inquadrare l’architettura compositiva e linguistica del romanzo Verderame (2007) sullo sfondo della poetica di Michele Mari. La naturale vocazione al pastiche e all’intarsio delle lingue e dei dialetti tipica dello... more
O artigo analisa uma situação em que trabalhadores fortemente estigmatizados têm níveis de renda mais altos do que aqueles que os estigmatizam. Desta forma, afirmamos que na cidade patagônica de Comodoro Rivadavia há um desajuste entre... more
Un anno fa si è tenuto sulle pagine de L'Adige un vivace dibattito sulla poesia dialettale. Un critico che si è firmato Nilo Obiurgatore ha attaccato la struttura dei premi poetici dialettali, i suoi protagonisti e tutta la struttura... more
Gadda (1957) e Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio di Amara Lakhous (2006) raccontano entrambi un omicidio che sconvolge la quotidianità di due quartieri romani: il primo, ambientato in epoca fascista, rimane un mistero... more
Documents pour l'histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde 24 | 1999 Les auteurs classiques français dans l'enseignement du F.L.E. (18e et 19e siècles) La culture française dans les études du «Real Colegio de Cirugía» de Cadix... more
O artigo analisa uma situação em que trabalhadores fortemente estigmatizados têm níveis de renda mais altos do que aqueles que os estigmatizam. Desta forma, afirmamos que na cidade patagônica de Comodoro Rivadavia há um desajuste entre... more
O pastiche plurilingüístico que caracteriza Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de Via Merulana não está presente na tradução brasileira Desse modo, também o critério de montagem dos vários níveis de realidade, que preside esse romance de Cario... more
This paper overviews what we currently know about the phonetics/phonology of heritage speakers of Spanish based on previous research on this topic, and also provides suggestions for future directions to pursue, as inspired by previous... more
Nei romanzi Ragazzi di z^z'/^( 1955) e Una vita violenta {\9'^S)), Pier Paolo Pasolini penetra nell' inferno del sottoproletariato romano, usando un linguaggio tutto particolare che vuole essere quello delle creature che popolano quel... more
Dans cet entretien Vanessa Alaya, etudiante en master recherche LLCER parcours etudes italiennes (Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier) interroge la romanciere italienne Evelina Santangelo sur l'ecriture de son roman Senzaterra... more
Dans cet entretien Vanessa Alaya, etudiante en master recherche LLCER parcours etudes italiennes (Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier) interroge la romanciere italienne Evelina Santangelo sur l'ecriture de son roman Senzaterra... more
Gadda (1957) e Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio di Amara Lakhous (2006) raccontano entrambi un omicidio che sconvolge la quotidianità di due quartieri romani: il primo, ambientato in epoca fascista, rimane un mistero... more
L'articolo ripercorre il periodo romano di Pasolini, con un focus sulla lingua dei romanzi romani "Ragazzi di vita" e "Una vita violenta" e sulla funzione del romanesco negli esiti che riconducono l'autore al filone letterario del... more
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana di Carlo Emilio Gadda (1957) e Scontro di civilta per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio di Amara Lakhous (2006) raccontano entrambi un omicidio che sconvolge la quotidianita di due quartieri romani:... more
Realizamos, entre 2016 e 2017, uma investigação das bases teórico-metodológicas e linguístico-pedagógicas do contexto dos anos de 1970 no Brasil e concluímos que o ensino de língua portuguesa, em especial o ensino de redação, se pautava... more
Este artigo apresenta a transculturalidade como uma proposta possível à cultura surda por se tratar de uma cultura de minoria que encontra muita resistência, e, ao mesmo tempo, cria algumas barreiras em relação ao outro. Na... more
The study seeks to shed light on the issues of linguistic policies following the independence of Senegal from the French occupation. It also seeks to establish a historical framework for the French colonial legacies represented in the... more
Revue des linguistes de l'université Paris X Nanterre 12 | 2002 « Comme la lettre dit la vie »
In queste interviste alcuni poeti italiani parlano del loro rapporto con la scrittura dialettale sottolineando il significato e l'importanza che hanno nella loro esperienza la scelta del dialetto, l'osservazione del linguaggio vivo, la... more
poses a stylistic challenge never fully met by writers who follow. But I believe we must look beyond the formai sphere to comprehend Gadda's insistent experimentation; bis linguistic manipulations reveal a psychological and... more
Les patientes collectes d'André Chervel dans les archives et les sources imprimées sont ancrées dans une position originale sur les rapports entre école et société, position qu'il a fortifiée au fil des ans et dont il s'est expliqué dans... more
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