Language In Italy Research Articles

Modifications of the Italian political language in the last twenty years

This contribution focuses on the changes and developments of political language in Italy in the last twenty years. These changes can obviously be attributed to many different factors, but there is no doubt of the role Silvio Berlusconi and the mass media have played in it. At the same time, the financial crisis from which Southern Europe has not yet recovered and international terrorism have also intensively contributed to these changes.

The critical turn in LL

The present paper aims to reflect on the development of research in LL, to analyze its role and aims, and in particular to offer a critical discussion of the methods and tools used to collect and interpret data. Our analysis intends to highlight that LL studies have expanded since the flagship study by Landry and Bourhis (1997). The objects, methods, and tools of analysis in LL have changed in order to satisfy different research goals, to describe specific aspects of LL, and to interpret and understand the public space with different and often interdisciplinary approaches — semiotic, sociological, political, geographical, economic. Starting from our research on immigrant languages in Italy and from the existing literature, our objective here is to describe how both methodologies and objects of analysis have developed over the years.

English as a Lingua Franca and current issues in language teaching: An interview with Martin Dewey

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has not only generated a lot of interest among applied linguists and researchers, it has also attracted a great deal of attention among language teachers in recent years. What is particularly noteworthy is that ELF research has radically altered our way of thinking about language and the use of English in today’s globalized world (see, e.g., Dewey, 2013a, 2013b; Sung, 2013a, 2013b). It is therefore important for language teachers to understand more about ELF and its relevance for language teaching. In this interview, Martin Dewey, an expert in English as a Lingua Franca from King’s College, London, shares his ideas about the potential impact of ELF research on language teaching and teacher education. He previously taught English as a second language in Italy, Mexico, and the UK, and has trained language teachers on several pre-service and in-service programmes of teacher education. He is currently investigating ELF, and compiling a corpus of spoken ELF discourse for the purpose of describing and theorising current developments in the lexis, grammar, and pragmatics of English in lingua franca settings. He has published extensively on work in ELF, and is co-author with Alessia Cogo of Analyzing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven Investigation (2012).

The Spoken and Written Languages in Italy from the Roman Empire to the Years of Unification and Beyond

The Spoken and Written Languages in Italy from the Roman Empire to the Years of Unification and Beyond

Figures of the socio-political, scientific, and cultural life of Italy, 17–19 centuries. The exhibition of autographs at the RSL

2011 — the Year of Russian culture and Russian language in Italy and the Year of Italian Culture and Italian language in Russia is the culmination of centuries-old ties between Moscow and Rome. The history of relations between Russia and Italy is intimately associated with the interpenetration of cultures of two countries: Italy culture in Russia — due to famous and great architects, sculptors, musicians, and Russian in Italy, where many painters, poets and writers from our Fatherland worked. “Cross-year” also has been reflected in the activities of the Russian State Library, where was the exhibition of the Italian autographs of 17–19 centuries, presented to visitors for the first time from 10 to 30 June 2011. There are letters and documents written with the own hand of those who made up blossom to Italy, working for the blessing and country prosperity, struggling for its independence.

Medi-terranean Borderization

AbstractToday, when the children of first-generation migrants speak European languages in Italy, Germany, France, and northern Europe, the residents of these countries who have welcoming hearts open to new accents can listen to “forked tongues” singing in a mestizo melody that reinvigorates the morphology of our too-still languages. Both for welcoming residents and for nationals who fear the “flood” of immigrants from North Africa, the Chicano/a elaboration of the transition from postcoloniality to empowering decolonization and, more specifically, the dissemination of Gloria E. Anzaldua’s theorization of borderlands and mestizaje are precious tools to analyze and deconstruct the power relations between the state(s) that build walls/borders and the “borderized”/walled-in subjects. In a supranational horizon of good practices, Chicano/a theories of self and global transformations function as models for migratory thinking and, when adjusted to each specific reality, can be used by both migrants and nonhostil...

Political language in Italy and Great Britain

Patrick McCarthy underlined the role of political language in the crisis of the Italian Republic. It was both a reflection of the crisis and an active agent of political change. A study of Berlusconi's political language reveals the importance of his new, simplified style of political communication in the creation of his party Forza Italia and of his own personal charisma. He has been able to adapt his rhetoric to changing political circumstances and to different publics. Romano Prodi was successful in 1996 in constructing his image as the ‘anti-Berlusconi’, and Walter Veltroni also broke with the old style of hermetic political discourse acknowledging the inspiration both of Robert Kennedy and Tony Blair, but the language of the centre-left in recent years has generally failed to convey a clear message and has perpetuated obscurity in order to conceal its internal divisions. A comparison with the political language of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair reveals interesting similarities and differences. Thatcher, like Berlusconi, appealed to the need for national revival in the face of the threat from the left, but her language, unlike his, was rooted in the tradition of Protestant individualism and invigorated rather than challenging the existing party system. Blair managed to make skilful use of a new rhetoric of emotion and to incorporate elements of Thatcher's appeal in his ‘new Labour’ synthesis. In conclusion: McCarthy was deeply preoccupied with the possibility of an alternative and more honest style of political communication.

Apprendere l'italiano oggi

A aprendizagem do italiano no exterior e na Itália: como mudou o público e suas motivações. O fenômeno da imigração na Itália abriu novas perspectivas ao processo de ensino/aprendizagem.

Survival strategies of local languages in Italy

Survival strategies of local languages in Italy

The Blackwell history of the Latin language

Preface. 1 Latin and Indo-European. 2 The Languages of Italy. 3 The Background to Standardization. 4 'Old' Latin and its Varieties in the Period c.400--150 BC. 5 The Road to Standardization: Roman Latin of the Third and Second Centuries BC. 6 Elite Latin in the Late Republic and Early Empire. 7 Sub-Elite Latin in the Empire. 8 Latin in Late Antiquity and Beyond. Glossary. Appendix: The International Phonetic Alphabet. Bibliography of Reference and Other Works. Index.

Popularised science communication modes in Italian popular science magazines (1788-2002)

Analysis of popular science magazines can offer a significant contribution to the study of the history of science popularisation and the relation between the language of science and everyday language in Italy. This paper reconstructs the history of science popularisation through analysis of popular science magazines published in Italy from 1788 to date. The material examined consists of 80 popular science magazines covering various scientific disciplines, reporting current issues and targeted at a non-specialist public. Such material had never been gathered and organised in a systematic way before. The analysis did not take into account academic scientific journals which generally cover a single discipline and use technical language or high-quality science popularisation journals which also use specialist language. The element that all 80 magazines have in common is the use of non-technical, easily understandable language for a public that does not possess any specialist scientific knowledge. The analysis of the material offers an overview of the scientific disciplines that have been covered more extensively in popular science magazines from the end of the 18th century to date. In addition, it shows how priorities in coverage changed in different historical periods and how a variety of science communication modes have been established over time.

L'ordinateur dans l'enseignement des langues anciennes et le logiciel SNS-Greek & Latin

The paper presents the latest version of the application SNS Greek & Latin and some experiences made in Italian High Schools with the application itself. The current educational reform and the new technologies have brought to unavoidable changes in teaching ancient languages in Italy, but they could also improve the teaching methods.

The English language in Italy

The English language in Italy

Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy: Essays on Mass and Popular Culture.

Part 1 History, culture, language - the Italian experience: family, culture and politics in contemporary Italy, Paul Ginsborg Italy - tradition, backwardness and modernity, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith how popular is Italian?, Giulio Lepschy. Part 2 Religion, politics, social movements - culture and people: uniformity undone - aspects of Catholic culture in postwar Italy, Percy Allum the Italian Communist party and culture, David Forgacs challenging tradition - social movements, cultural changes and the ecological question, Robert Lumley. Part 3 Mass culture and intellectuals: Pier Paolo Pasolini - culture, Gramsci, Zygmunt Baranski Umberto Eco - theory and practice in the analysis of the media, David Robey rolling away from the centre towards X - some notes on Italian philosophy, weak thought and postmodernism, Ian Chambers. Part 4 Two case-studies - design and cinema in postwar Italy: from neorealism to Lucci Rosse - cinema, politics, society 1945-85, Stephen Gundle home for everybody?, design, ideology and the culture of the home in Italy, 1945-72, Penny Sparkes. Part 5 Looking at television - from public service to competition: a guide to the neo-television of the 1980's, Umberto Eco hard times for public service broadcasting - the RAI in the age of commercial competition, Giuseppe Richeri the Berlusconi phenomenon, Philip Schlesinger the evolution of television language in Italy since deregulation, Mauro Wolf TGI - the eight o'clock news on RAI Uno, Christopher Wagstaff imported Utopias, Lidia Curti.

Review of Devoto & Katainen (1978): The Languages of Italy

Review of Devoto & Katainen (1978): The Languages of Italy

The Languages of Italy

The Languages of Italy

English as a foreign language in Italy

English as a foreign language in Italy

The Languages of Italy

The Languages of Italy

Hardware description languages in Italy: Comput. Vol 7 No 12 (December 1974) pp 60–61

Hardware description languages in Italy: Comput. Vol 7 No 12 (December 1974) pp 60–61

XXIII. On one Source of the Non-Hellenic Portion of the Latin Language

Payne Knight, no mean name among philologers, after a masterly and convincing proof, that neither Zenodotus nor Aristarchus, the great critics of the Alexandrian school, could be acquitted of the charge of “scarcely credible ignorance” of the primitive form of the Homeric language, thus proceeds :—“The grammarians and critics of Alexandria were all guilty of the same fault. They never investigated the original sources of the language, but classed among anomalous dialects and poetic licenses every thing that was not in unison with their own usual style of speaking. In their age there existed many clews to the inquiry, which have now disappeared, but which, at that time, might easily have been found in written records, and in the rude and semi-barbarous languages of Italy and other countries adjacent to Greece. Had any one, however, suggested to Aristarchus that the true form and character of the Homeric dialect was to be extracted from the Latin, Tuscan, or Oscan languages, he would in my opinion have been as much astonished as if he had heard of the claims of the Irish antiquary, who affirmed that the Homeric poems had been translated furtively from the “Gaelic into Greek.”