Scendere in campo. Breve storia di una polirematica

Authors

  • Mario Piotti Università degli Studi di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2282-0035/15243

Abstract

The contribution traces the history of the verbal multiword expression scendere in campo which, since the nineties of the twentieth century, has had a great fortune in political and media language. The beginnings seem to date back to the early 1550s, but its success seems above all to be linked to counter reformation texts. It will be necessary to wait until the twentieth century for the multiword expression, in addition to being characterized as a war metaphor, to be used in sports. The history of the multiword expression is traced through a complete investigation in the lemmas of the Great Dictionary of the Italian Language founded by Salvatore Battaglia (GDLI), through the interrogation of Google Books and finally using the corpus set up for VoDIM – Dynamic vocabulary of modern use.

Published

2021-03-12

Issue

Section

Saggi