MECCANISMI E SIGNIFICATI LINGUISTICI DI UN’IDENTITÀ CONTEMPORANEA: ANALISI DELLO SPAZIO LINGUISTICO DI UNA TIFOSERIA ULTRAS DI CALCIO
Mechanisms and linguistic referents of a contemporaridentity: the analysis of linguistic space of an ultra passion for football

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the football Ultras and their involvement in the stadium as a social situation and contextual environment from a linguistic point of view. The focus of the article is on the Fiorentina Ultras - Ultras Viola - as it is a very big community of football followers with a historical role in the Italian Ultras phenomenon. Among the different means of communication adopted by the Ultras Viola, the article focuses on the analysis of the banners exposed in the stadiums (114 banners exposed by the Fiorentina Ultras from the season 2004/2005 to 2008/2009). The banners are, together with the choruses, the foremost mean adopted to communicate and they can be seen as a sort of crystallization of the Ultras’ messages. A sociolinguistic, sociosemiotic and sociosemantic analysis of the banners allows us to identify the styles of communication and the different ways of expression as well as the constitutional dynamics of the Fiorentina Ultras’ identity.

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