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The Discourse of Fake News in Italy A Comparative Analysis
2018
While the ongoing debate over post-truth focuses predominantly on finding procedures to reveal false statements, distinguishing facts (truth) from fake news (false), promoting fact-checking and debunking on an ever broader scale, the semiotic perspective may choose to speculate on the benefits of analysing the texts which actually create and spread fake news, in order to acknowledge the main discursive and narrative strategies used by those most responsible for spreading hoaxes, and better understand the way they produce their own credibility and use it in order to pollute public debate. Reconstructing the rhetorical dimension of the "mud-slinging machine" may prove particularly useful, as …
Prospettive dialettiche intorno alla definizione del fenomeno mafioso
2023
Il fenomeno mafioso non nasce certo con l’istituzione della legge n. 646, del 13 settembre 1982, fortemente voluta da Pio La Torre e approvata, non già dopo la sua morte (il 30 aprile del 1982) ma solo all’indomani della strage di via Carini, dove persero la vita il prefetto di Palermo Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, la giovane moglie Emanuela Setti Carraro e l’agente di scorta Domenico Russo. Ma in quella data viene dato un nome e un riconoscimento giuridico – suggellato in uno specifico articolo del codice penale, il 416bis – a un fenomeno criminale risalente nel tempo. Su queste diverse prospettive, sulla tardività del parlamento nel legiferare in questa materia e sulle battaglie dialettiche…
Forms of gastronomic camouflage: veridiction in the kitchen
2022
In this essay, we analyse the regimes of truth and the forms of culinary camouflage inscribed in some signature dishes by several well-known Italian chefs, whose work is emblematic of the various fictional trends in gastronomy. In doing so, we will keep in mind the so-called semiotic square of veridiction that discursive semiotics has been proposing and using for some time. The analysis reveals how the gastronomic discourse of the Italian haute cousine produces effects of illusion, secrecy, falsehood and truth. The concurrence of these veridiction modes allows for an explicit model which accounts for the various styles of camouflage and thus describes current tendencies in contemporary cuis…