The main aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of language change and language
management in Italy and France in order to situate the competing factors and actors which …

Der Band gibt eine umfassende Einführung in die Varietätenlinguistik. Auf einen Einblick in
die Verortung und die Geschichte der Varietätenlinguistik folgt eine Darstellung …

This chapter provides a critical overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Italy focusing on
the relationships between the standard language and the many Italo-Romance varieties that …

Winner of the prestigious' Giuseppe Sormani International Prize'for the best monograph on
Antonio Gramsci (4th edition, 2012-2017). Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the most …

The relative status of dialects and Italian and the different patterns of language use have
given rise to potentially different speech communities within the larger Italo-Romance …

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach
in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to …

This paper takes a pragmatic approach to the issue of language maintenance and
revitalization and constructs its argument through an ecological lens. Electing Emilian–a …

Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to
questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given …

In this article I adopt a family language policy approach and a diachronic perspective to
explore how the dialect-Italian dynamics unfolds differently within different cohorts of Italian …

Nel decennio trascorso le varietà dell'italiano si sono rivelate un proficuo campo d'azione
per paradigmi di ricerca tra di loro anche piuttosto eterogenei, dando luogo a una …