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Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language
In this collection of six scholarly essays on the Italian language, Giulio Lepschy discusses issues ranging from Italian literary and spoken history to prosody and a play of the Italian Renaissance.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Various students of general linguistics and semantics quote and discuss Wittgenstein, among others, OGDEN and RICHARDS (1960), ULLMANN (1951, 1962), PAGLIARO (1952, 1957), WELLS (1960), REGNELL (1960) and 1 ZIFF (1960). For the most part however they quote the Tractatus and not 2 the Philosophical Investigations ; not all of them consider the most important ideas in the Tractatus but often discuss marginal points; above all they often make the discussion of Wittgenstein's ideas secondary to the development of their own thought. It should be added, moreover, that these students are exceptions. The large majority of language theorists, especially those with a philological background, have almo...
Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism
Both Leibniz and Humboldt are scholars in whose work we find a passionate interest in the history and development of languages combined with a strong theoretical commitment. Linking their names to linguistic comparativism draws attention to the contribution these scholars have made to the history of comparativism and also promotes discussion of the relationship of theory and practice in linguistic research in more general terms. In September 1986, a conference on Leibniz, Humboldt and the Origins of Comparativism' was held in Rome. The papers included in this volume are revised versions of the papers presented at the conference.
Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita
Pubblicata nel 1963, questa Storia presentava l'uso della lingua nella poesia e nella prosa letteraria e i singoli fenomeni linguistici come parti dell'evoluzione complessiva del linguaggio dell'intera popolazione: la persistenza e dominanza dei molti dialetti, la lenta conquista collettiva della conoscenza e dell'uso parlato della lingua, il declino dell'aulicità. E quest'evoluzione a sua volta era studiata in rapporto con le grandi tendenze della società italiana postunitaria: il decrescente, ma sempre persistente analfabetismo, la faticosa e lenta scolarizzazione, l'emigrazione, la prima industrializzazione, le migrazioni interne e l'urbanizzazione, la diffusione della stampa, le scarse letture, la nascita e l'incidenza di cinema, radio, televisione. Le tecniche dell'analisi linguistica strutturale e le statistiche erano messe a servizio della storia. Era un «guardare in faccia» (Gramsci) la realtà italiana, linguistica e non solo. Non tutti gradirono, allora. Ma è stata ritenuta uno strumento di qualche utilità se poi è stata riedita e ristampata ogni due, tre anni, attraversando le nostre collane fino a quest'edizione per i 150 anni dell'Unità.
Storia linguistica d’Italia dall’Unità a oggi
Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita: un'opera unica nel panorama culturale italiano: la storia della lingua dall'Unità al secondo dopoguerra si intreccia qui con la vita politica, intellettuale e letteraria del paese, e con le trasformazioni della scuola e della cultura di massa. Storia linguistica dell'Italia repubblicana: il volume segue il grande classico di Tullio De Mauro, la Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita, e completa il panorama dello studio dell'italiano contemporaneo e della cultura del nostro Paese dal 1946 ai nostri giorni.
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.
Beyond Pure Reason
Conducting an analysis of Saussure's intellectual heritage, this book links Sassurean notions of cognition, language, and history to early Romantic theories of cognition and the transmission of cultural memory. In particular, several fundamental categories of Saussure's philosophy of language, such as the differential nature of language, the mutability and immutability of semiotic values, and the duality of the signifier and the signified, are rooted in early Romantic theories of 'progressive' cognition and child cognitive development.
Language Creativity
In Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective, Simone Casini aims to frame the concept of creativity within a linguistic dimension by developing a theoretical reflection with constant references to contact languages and to the educational plan. Semiotic creativity abandons the condition of the linguistic property inter pares and rises to the rank of theoretical and first principle by which languages define themselves, function and interact in the negotiation of meaning in relation to the social uses. Casini considers creativity as a premise for the rule changing of boundaries of meaning and creation of language and meaning. The work progresses starting from the historical-critical concept of creativity, discussing the most philosophical and linguistic theories in the North American and European context.
