“L’unico indiano buono è un indiano muto.” Un’analisi contrastiva inglese/italiano del discorso filmico western
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https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2017.i9.261Abstract
This paper focuses on the contrastive analysis (English/Italian) of the trailers of two important films in the history of the western genre: Stagecoach/Ombre rosse (1939) and Dances With Wolves/Balla coi lupi (1990). Following the “discourse-historical” approach proposed by Ruth Wodak and Martin Reisigl (2001), the analysis of the discourse of power at play on the American frontier is conducted in order to emphasise the presence of a strongly connoted language that describes both Indians and pioneers. Taking into account the historical, political and sociological dimension in the analysis and interpretation of this specific discursive occasion (Wodak and Reisigl 2001), this paper aims at giving a brief overview of how native languages and native people were (mis)represented in western films, with a focus on two transnationally successful films.
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O’Sullivan, Carol. “Multilingualism at the Multiplex: a New Audience for Screen Translation?” A tool for Social Integration? Audiovisual Translation from Different Angles (Special Issue). A cura di Aline Remael e Josélia Neves. Linguistica Antwerpiensia, 6 (2007): 81-95.
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Ombre rosse (Stagecoach). John Ford. 1939.
Page, Ruth. New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality (Routledge Studies in Multimodality). London: Routledge, 2011.
Partington, Alan. “‘Utterly Content in Each Other’s Company:’ Semantic Prosody and Semantic Preference.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9 (2004): 131-156.
Rollins, Peter, e John O’Connor. Hollywood’s Indians: The Portrayal of the Native Americans in Film. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2003.
Sinclair, John. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Rosso, Stefano. Le frontiere del Far West. Forme di rappresentazione del grande mito Americano. Milano: Shake, 2008.
Stewart, Dominic. Semantic Prosody: A Critical Evaluation. London: Routledge, 2010.
van Dijk, Teun A. “Discourse, Power and Access.” Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis. A cura di Carmen R. Caldas-Coulthard e Malcolm Coulthard. London: Routledge, 1996. 84-104.
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Wodak, Ruth. “Critical Discourse Analysis: History, Agenda, Theory and Methodology.” Methods for Critical Discourse Analysis. A cura di Ruth Wodak e Michael Meyer. London: Sage, 2009. 1-33.
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Wodak, Ruth, e Martin Reisigl. “Discourse and Racism,” The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. A cura di Deborah Schiffrin et al. Blackwell Publishers, 2001. 372-396.
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