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Le strategie di critica nella serie TV Fuoriclasse (Studio pragmatico)

ORCiD logo with link | Ain Shams UniversityCairo

Article language: Italian

Published online: 19 May 2026
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.25026.ali
Abstract
The present study examines the strategies employed in the realization of the speech act of criticism in the Italian television series Fuoriclasse, highlighting the pragmatic properties of this important but under-researched speech act, as well as the influence of power relations between the speaker and the addressee on the performance of the speech act.
The data on criticism speech acts in this study were collected from 12 episodes (first season) with a total duration of 616 minutes. The collected data were classified and analyzed based on the criticism speech acts strategies by Nguyen, M. (2005): Criticizing and Responding to Criticism in a Foreign language: A study of Vietnamese learners of English. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The University of Auckland, Auckland. Retrieved from [URL].
The findings demonstrate that the characters in the television series tend to use indirect strategies more than direct ones when performing criticism, suggesting a tendency to maintain social harmony and refrain from expressing direct criticism toward interlocutors. The data analysis indicates that the speech act of criticism is more frequently produced by socially superior speakers or by peers, rather than by individuals occupying lower social positions.
Article outline
  • Introduzione
  • 1.Inquadramento teorico
    • 1.1La teoria della cortesia di Brown e Levinson
    • 1.2L’atto linguistico di critica
      • 1.2.1Condizioni di felicità dell’atto di critica
      • 1.2.2Classificazione delle strategie dell’atto di critica
  • 2.Il corpus
  • 3.Raccolta dei dati e metodologia d’analisi
  • 4.Analisi dei dati
    • 4.1Descrizione dei dati
      • 4.1.1Strategie di critiche dirette
        • (A)Identificazione del problema
        • (B)Valutazione negativa
        • (C)Espressione di disaccordo
        • (D)Disapprovazione
        • (E)Conseguenze
        • (F)Dichiarazione di difficoltà
      • 4.1.2Strategie di critiche indirette
        • (A)Chiedere / presupporre
        • (B)Altri hints
        • (C)Indicare lo standard
        • (D)Correzione
        • (E)Richiesta impositiva di cambiamento
        • (F)Consiglio per un cambiamento
        • (G)Richiesta non impositiva di cambiamento
        • (H)Suggerimento di cambiamento
        • (I)Preaching
      • 4.1.3Strategie combinate
      • 4.1.4Strategie emergenti dai dati
        • (A)Autocritica
        • (B)Critica non verbale
    • 4.2Discussione dei dati
  • 5.Conclusioni
  • Notes
  • Bibliografia
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