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The Other Italy
Italy possesses two literary canons, one in the Tuscan language and the other made up of the various dialects of its many regions. The Other Italy presents for the first time an overview of the principal authors and texts of Italy's literary canon in dialect. It highlights the cultivated dialect poetry, drama, and narrative prose since the codification of the Tuscan literary language in the early sixteenth century, when writing in dialect became a deliberate and conscious alternative to the official literary standard. The book offers a panorama of the literary dialects of Italy over five centuries and across the country's regions, shedding light on a profoundly plurilingual and polycentric civilization. As a guide to reading and research, it provides a compendium of literary sources in dialect, arranged by region and accompanied by syntheses of regional traditions with selected textual illustrations. A work of extraordinary importance, The Other Italy was awarded the Modern Language Association of America's Aldo and Jean Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. It will serve scholars as an indispensable resource book for years to come.
Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire
The Habsburg Empire often features in scholarship as a historical example of how language diversity and linguistic competence were essential to the functioning of the imperial state. Focusing critically on the urban-rural divide, on the importance of status for multilingual competence, on local governments, schools, the army and the urban public sphere, and on linguistic policies and practices in transition, this collective volume provides further evidence for both the merits of how language diversity was managed in Austria-Hungary and the problems and contradictions that surrounded those practices. The book includes contributions by Pieter M. Judson, Marta Verginella, Rok Stergar, Anamarija Lukić, Carl Bethke, Irina Marin, Ágoston Berecz, Csilla Fedinec, István Csernicskó, Matthäus Wehowski, Jan Fellerer, and Jeroen van Drunen.
The Friulian Language
Are minor languages the lifeblood of cherished local identities or just passports with restricted validity, serving no purpose in today’s transnational, global world? Italy’s north-eastern region of Friuli is a case in point: in this area, around half a million people speak Friulian, a Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance family, which is attested to in written texts since 1150 and acquired official minority language status in 1999. Geographically and politically off-centre, Friuli remained isolated for a long part of its history and developed a unique language that sustained a distinctive identity and culture. Starting from the nineteenth century, large-scale migration towards Norther...
Social Support Systems in Rural Italy
This book examines the development of social support systems in the Modern age in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy. This investigation achieves two main purposes: first, it allows researchers to understand the role occupied concretely by welfare and micro-credit activities in the political and socio-economic panorama of rural Northern Italy; secondly, it verifies to what extent the formation of a more or less structured support system influenced the establishment of local identity and the rooting of individuals. The book brings together perspectives from different fields of research ranging from economic and political history to the study of the history of ecclesiastical ...
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Italica et Romanica
Am 21. April 1997 feiert Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Max Pfister, Herausgeber des »Lessico etimologico italiano (LEI)« und seit 1989 der »Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP)«, ehemaliger Präsident und Ehrenmitglied des Vorstands der Société de linguistique romane, seinen 65. Geburtstag. Zu diesem Anlaß haben Schüler, Freunde und Kollegen des Jubilars eine dreibändige Festschrift zusammengestellt, die in annähernd einhundert Beiträgen die zentralen Schwerpunkte seiner Lehr- und Forschungstätigkeit beleuchten: Lexikologie und Lexikographie der romanischen Sprachen, philologische Probleme der Textedition, Fragen der Kontaktlinguistik, des Sprachvergleichs und der grammatikalischen Beschreibung romanischer Sprachen, diverse Bereiche der Dialektologie und der Onomastik, Themen der externen Sprachgeschichte und der Wissenschaftgeschichte der Romanistik. Der Festschrift beigefügt sind ein Verfasser- und Sachindex sowie das Verzeichnis der Schriften von Max Pfister.
