Metafore per ferire. La rappresentazione dei migranti come flussi d'acqua nel discorso pubblico italiano
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https://doi.org/10.54103/2532-1803/29403Parole chiave:
metafore concettuali, discorsi sui migranti, linguaggio d’odio, media italianiAbstract
Scopo del lavoro è analizzare in dettaglio l’uso, nel discorso pubblico italiano, di una delle metafore concettuali più diffuse nella rappresentazione dei migranti, cioè i migranti sono flussi d’acqua. L’analisi si basa sull’esame delle collocazioni dei principali lessemi che denotano i migranti (migranti, immigrati, clandestini, profughi, rifugiati), svolto sui testi che compongono il web italiano pubblicati a partire dal 2000. L’indagine mostra come, a differenza di altre metafore palesemente offensive, la metafora dei flussi si realizza tramite un lessico apparentemente neutro e non percepito come offensivo, ed è usata perciò anche nella comunicazione istituzionale e in discorsi non xenofobici. Si tratta tuttavia di una rappresentazione fortemente denigratoria, che proietta sui migranti i tre tratti concettuali della disumanizzazione, della spersonalizzazione e della pericolosità.
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