Radicalizzazione, banalizzazione e neologismi nel discorso politico (Italia e Slovacchia)

Abstrakt

Since the 1990s, the official political discourse has undergone a strong and progressive radicalization and one increasingly shameless customs clearance of expressions, previously relegated to extra-parliamentary politics or to counter-politics/counter-culture. This is a phenomenon that has probably occurred at an international level. In Italy, to paraphrase Umberto Eco, there has been a shift from obscure political language to vacuous political language, hypersimple conceptualization and trivializing slogans, sometimes neologisms. All these things have contributed to impoverish the language, with expressions that, while meaning little, are usually able to trigger powerful mechanisms of distortion of reality, if not of construction of alternative reality, that absorbs the consumers of the messages. The following article aims to attempt to observe this linguistic fact, making a quick picture of the evolutionary situation of the Italian political language in the last thirty years, attempting in the final part to see what can be found in common with the processes that have concerned the recent Slovak political language.