Schjerve, Rosita Rindler (1989) “The Political Language of Futurism and its relationship to Italian Fascism” in Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse (ed.) Ruth Wodak: 57-79. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

1. Textual analysis as a contribution to historical research

2. Textual analysis and criticism of ideology

3. Futurism in its socio-political context

4. Textual analysis

4.1 The texts into context

4.2 Language use and ideology

4.3 Analysis of political speeches and manifestos

4.3.1 Creating enemy image

4.3.2 Escape into myth

Barthes indicates that myth is a language which deforms meaning, not by destroying, but only by alienating it. In myth things obtain a clarity which is not the clarity of explanation, but that of observation. – 66

4.3.3 Creating stereotypes

4.3.4 Textual structure

5. An assessment of Futurist propaganda with regard to Fascism