Semiotica e semantica del Burocratese: nonsololessico

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of specialized administrative language, called bureaucratese. It analyzes the attempts made so far to simplify it, by operating mostly on the lexicon, and challenges the mind/language relationship that is supposed to have generated it. With the help of conceptual elaborations formulated in the field of cognitive semiotics on the theories of translation, adjustment, bricolage and on the inferences that can be activated by terms, we will move from semantics to semiotics, reconnecting to the theory of enunciative praxis as a concatenation of enunciations that leads to weaken the idea of a single subject behind the formation of a public document. This is made possible dismissing the I/You dialectic in favor of a triadic relationship based on ‘illeity’ and on an increasingly consolidated evenemential theory of language.