%0 Journal Article %T From the linguistic ideology to the semiotic ideology. Reflections upon the denial. [Italian] %A Massimo Leone %J Eidos %D 2011 %I Universidad del Norte %X A vast literature exists on the concept of ¡°linguistic ideology.¡± Scholars generally agree on defining it as a set of ideas that the members of a community hold about the role of language in the community. Nevertheless, scholars generally disagree on whether these ideas are explicit or implicit. Different views on this point imply different methodologies: the analysis of explicit considerations on language in the first case, that of a more multifarious material in the second one. However, excluding implicit ideas from the analysis is too restrictive. A better option is to distinguish between explicit beliefs and implicit assumptions. Whereas the first ones must be studied through socio- or ethno-logical methods, the second ones must be studied through semiotics: the discourses that are produced in a community are considered as signs of implicit assumptions that such community holds about language. The paper deals with a case-study: the semiotic ideology behind denegation in the contemporary Italian political discourse. %K Language %K community %K linguistic ideology %K sociology %K ethnology %K semiotics %U http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/eidos/article/view/2145/1382