ABSTRACT This article explores a novel way to understand the process of diasporic identity formation by comparing the discursive structure of Italian diasporic newspapers published in the United States with the baseline of public discourse in Italy. It uses as its evidence Italian language newspapers published in the United States from 1898 to 1920 (ChroniclItaly) and the Italian newspaper La Stampa published in Italy between 1867 and 1900. Applying a mixed-method approach of close and distant reading, the study examines how the ideological concept of Italian identity, linguistically represented by the anchor word italianità, “Italianness”, was constructed in these printed media at the turn of the twentieth century. The overarching aim is to explore how differences in the two identity constructions can be explained from their specific historical contexts: the process of ethnic integration and redefinition in the United States as opposed to the need to consolidate national unity in the face of emerging nations and nationalism within Europe.

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意大利身份的媒体建构：1867-1920 年对意大利、种族和白人的跨大西洋数字人文分析

摘要本文通过比较在美国出版的意大利侨民报纸的话语结构与意大利公共话语的基线，探索了一种理解侨民身份形成过程的新方法。它使用 1898 年至 1920 年在美国出版的意大利语报纸 (ChroniclItaly) 和 1867 年至 1900 年间在意大利出版的意大利语报纸 La Stampa 作为证据。该研究应用近距离阅读和远距离阅读的混合方法，研究如何意大利身份的意识形态概念，在语言上由锚词 italianità，“意大利性”所代表，是在二十世纪之交的这些印刷媒体中构建的。