Rappresentare l’italianità: retorica presidenziale e costruzione identitaria

Representing Italianness: Presidential Rhetoric and Identity
Construction
Anna Romagnuolo
The aim of this study is to investigate the discursive construction
of Italian identity in presidential rhetoric, focusing particularly on
the representations of Italian immigrants and second- and third
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generation Italian Americans. The analysis examines a corpus
of presidential speeches selected for the significance of their
communicative context and uses the approach of Critical Discourse
Analysis, integrated with Corpus Linguistics methodology to
illustrate how the image of a composite yet unified American
national identity seems to reflect a gradual reassessment of the value
of minority immigrant groups.