Books by Valentina Imperi
Aracne Editrice, Sep 25, 2010
The paper focuses on the football Ultras and their involvement
in the stadium as a social situat... more The paper focuses on the football Ultras and their involvement
in the stadium as a social situation and contextual environment
from a sociolinguistical point of view. The tribes of the Ultras differ one from the other and the study focus on the Fiorentina Ultras as it is a very big community of football followers with an historical role in the Ultras phenomenon and also because the team has often been penalized by referees’ decisions.
Among the different means of communication and the many
ways of conceiving the Ultras Viola identity, the study focuses
on the analysis of the Fiorentina Ultras’ banners exposed in the
stadiums. The banners are, together with the choruses, the foremost mean adopted by the Ultras to communicate and they can be seen as a sort of crystallization of the Ultras’ messages. The
sample of banners analysed in the present study is made of 114
banners exposed by the Fiorentina Ultras from the season
2004/2005 to the present. The media has launched the concept
of a viola style (from club's taditional violet colour) that combines
passion for football and fair play: what does this style
consist in? A sociolinguistical analysis of the banners, both at
the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence and in other stadiums,
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.
The present study on this subgroup of Ultras applies it’s results
into the foremost theoretical contributions (sociology, sociolinguistics, sociosemiotics, etc.). The study aims also to open
up to a new research perspective (the analysis of the Ultras selfrepresentation) that could be implemented by investigating other Ultras groups, to study other communication means and to
conceive a comparative analysis of different Ultras communities.
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Books by Valentina Imperi
in the stadium as a social situation and contextual environment
from a sociolinguistical point of view. The tribes of the Ultras differ one from the other and the study focus on the Fiorentina Ultras as it is a very big community of football followers with an historical role in the Ultras phenomenon and also because the team has often been penalized by referees’ decisions.
Among the different means of communication and the many
ways of conceiving the Ultras Viola identity, the study focuses
on the analysis of the Fiorentina Ultras’ banners exposed in the
stadiums. The banners are, together with the choruses, the foremost mean adopted by the Ultras to communicate and they can be seen as a sort of crystallization of the Ultras’ messages. The
sample of banners analysed in the present study is made of 114
banners exposed by the Fiorentina Ultras from the season
2004/2005 to the present. The media has launched the concept
of a viola style (from club's taditional violet colour) that combines
passion for football and fair play: what does this style
consist in? A sociolinguistical analysis of the banners, both at
the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence and in other stadiums,
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.
The present study on this subgroup of Ultras applies it’s results
into the foremost theoretical contributions (sociology, sociolinguistics, sociosemiotics, etc.). The study aims also to open
up to a new research perspective (the analysis of the Ultras selfrepresentation) that could be implemented by investigating other Ultras groups, to study other communication means and to
conceive a comparative analysis of different Ultras communities.
in the stadium as a social situation and contextual environment
from a sociolinguistical point of view. The tribes of the Ultras differ one from the other and the study focus on the Fiorentina Ultras as it is a very big community of football followers with an historical role in the Ultras phenomenon and also because the team has often been penalized by referees’ decisions.
Among the different means of communication and the many
ways of conceiving the Ultras Viola identity, the study focuses
on the analysis of the Fiorentina Ultras’ banners exposed in the
stadiums. The banners are, together with the choruses, the foremost mean adopted by the Ultras to communicate and they can be seen as a sort of crystallization of the Ultras’ messages. The
sample of banners analysed in the present study is made of 114
banners exposed by the Fiorentina Ultras from the season
2004/2005 to the present. The media has launched the concept
of a viola style (from club's taditional violet colour) that combines
passion for football and fair play: what does this style
consist in? A sociolinguistical analysis of the banners, both at
the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence and in other stadiums,
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.
The present study on this subgroup of Ultras applies it’s results
into the foremost theoretical contributions (sociology, sociolinguistics, sociosemiotics, etc.). The study aims also to open
up to a new research perspective (the analysis of the Ultras selfrepresentation) that could be implemented by investigating other Ultras groups, to study other communication means and to
conceive a comparative analysis of different Ultras communities.