“Outlier” latenti nelle costruzioni a lista: Il caso del discorso politico su Twitter

This contribution investigates the use of list constructions as a rhetorical tool in the Twitter communication of four Italian political leaders (Giorgia Meloni – Fratelli d’Italia; Matteo Salvini – Lega; Matteo Renzi – Italia Viva; and Nicola Zingaretti – Partito Democratico), by analyzing a corpus of 4,371 tweets from which 449 lists have been extrapolated. The results suggest that there is indeed a deliberate and strategic use of this construction and that the main purpose of list outliers is to persuade readers (potential voters).