Entering into politics

Interdiscursivity, register, stance, and vernacular in northern Italy

Bibliographic Data

ID2907920
AuthorsJillian R Cavanaugh (0000-0001-5198-0430, The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume41
Issue1
Pages73-95
Publication date2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404511000911
OpenAlexW2129883821
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited19

This article focuses on how specific types of language use connect socially, geographically, and temporally distant speakers and span face-to-face and mediated language contexts. It examines one variety of political language (the Northern League register in Italy) in order to analyze how the interdiscursive potentials of register and stance-taking enable such connections. It also presents the metapragmatic effects of engaging in types of talk such as political language, which are less about individual expression or political participation, but are rather part of a complex of stance-taking and alignment of self within local and national political debates. Based on long-term ethnographic and linguistic research in Bergamo, Italy, this article introduces the concept of the interdiscursive trap, showing how the Northern League register functions in this capacity, forging indexical links to particular ideas and stances that some speakers find undesirable. (Political language, interdiscursivity, register, stance, Italy, Europe, Northern League, media

Ethnography · Face (sociological concept) · Indexicality · League · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Register (sociolinguistics) · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Vernacular · Anthropology · Computer Science · Law · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy

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