In this article, we introduce an innovative approach to examining campaign themes in Italy, by performing an original corpus linguistic analysis of the party manifestos related to the crucial 2022 election. Through its systematicity and flexibility, our approach allows us to gauge theory-driven propositions using a large amount of so far unexplored textual data. As anticipated, the 2022 Italian party manifestos are characterised by a somewhat balanced configuration of emphasis across a variety of themes, of which some are more controversial and others more widely shared among voters and parties. Further, we also corroborate that parties primarily focus on those themes that historically fit them best, ideologically and in terms of perceived competence. Lastly, salient ‘issues of the day’ are differently emphasised by Italian parties, which particularly avoid devoting considerable attention to the highly sensitive Russian-Ukrainian war.

在本文中，我们介绍了一种创新方法，通过对与关键的 2022 年选举相关的政党宣言进行原始语料库语言分析，来研究意大利的竞选主题。通过其系统性和灵活性，我们的方法使我们能够使用大量迄今为止未探索的文本数据来衡量理论驱动的命题。正如预期的那样，2022 年意大利政党宣言的特点是在各种主题上的重点有些平衡，其中一些主题更具争议性，另一些则在选民和政党中得到广泛认同。此外，我们还证实，政党主要关注历史上在意识形态和感知能力方面最适合他们的主题。最后，意大利各方对突出的“当今问题”的重视程度不同，尤其避免对高度敏感的俄罗斯-乌克兰战争投入大量注意力。