Face attack in Italian politics
Beppe Grillo’s insulting epithets for other politicians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21235498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Bortoluzzi (0000-0002-0659-5661, University of Udine), Elena Semino (0000-0002-3421-2963, Lancaster University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-201 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2213-1272 • E-ISSN: 2213-1280 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlac.4.2.02bor |
| OpenAlex | W2564989753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 33 |
The second largest party in the Italian Parliament, the ‘5-Star Movement’, is led by comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo. Grillo is well-known for a distinctive and often inflammatory rhetoric, which includes the regular use of humorous but insulting epithets for other politicians, such as Psiconano (‘Psychodwarf’) for Silvio Berlusconi. This paper discusses a selection of epithets used by Grillo on his blog between 2008 and 2015 to refer to Berlusconi and three successive centre-left leaders. We account for the functions of the epithets in terms of Spencer-Oatey’s (2002, 2008) multi-level model of “face” and of Culpeper’s (2011) “entertaining” and “coercive” functions of impoliteness. We suggest that our study has implications for existing models of face and impoliteness and for an understanding of the evolving role of verbal aggression in Italian politics
Epithet · Linguistics · Media studies · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Impoliteness in Interaction
Forbidden Words
Impoliteness
The Discourse of Politics in Action
Right-Wing Populism in Europe
Interaction Ritual
Impoliteness in Language
The politics of being insulted
Identity in Modern Society
(Im)Politeness, Face and Perceptions of Rapport
Reasonable Hostility”
Cross-cultural variation in the perception of impoliteness
Italy’s “Five Stars” movement and the role of a leader
Politics is Football
Relevance and relational work
The web will kill them all
Politeness
The Pragmatics of Politeness
Varieties of rudeness
Who is this "We"? Levels of collective identity and self representations
Managing rapport in talk
Language and Creativity
Towards an anatomy of impoliteness
Theories of identity and the analysis of face
Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |