“Non ai fatto la parte del tuo dovere:” Studio sulla lingua della propaganda italiana nella Grande Guerra

This work presents an overview of the influence of propaganda on the linguistic devices used in informal writing by the semi-educated during the Great War. The degree of influence of propaganda on the general population can be measured by linguistic clues in private letters, which, as reflections on, and descriptions of, the writers’ daily lives, are an ideal documentary source for the study of the subjective and collective mentality of an era. The research will focus on the volumes of an editorial series, “Pagine dell’ora”, published by Fratelli Treves, and the private correspondence of the military and the civil population.