In:The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues
Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión
[Figurative Thought and Language 20] 2025
► pp. 65–76
The word of the Cavaliere, the Cavaliere of words
Notes on analysing the political language of Silvio Berlusconi
Published online: 2 September 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.20.05tra
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.20.05tra
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