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Italian Dialects from Common Speech to Literary Languages
One of the things that makes Italy such a fascinating country is no doubt the existence of an astonishing variety of languages in a rather small national territory. I use the word "language" intentionally when speaking of dialects, because the word "dialect" is usually misunderstood or used quite differently in the English-speaking world, where a dialect is generally taken to be a variation of a well-recognized standard-English-so that even an accent or a regional variety of speech can be considered a form of dialect. And the question of dialect and vernacular, when applied to literature, necessarily concerns matters of style as well, as articulated, for instance, in the following definition of vernacular style: Vernacular style may, of course, be defined in a number of ways, but in the following I shall take it to mean a special category of "substandard" or "common" usage that serves as a marker of class, regional, or age-group affiliation and that includes such speech-oriented lexical and grammatical features as colloquial formulas and epithets, slang, obscenities, and other vulgarisms, and certain kinds of allusive or elliptical morphological and syntactic arrangements. 1
Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics] 18. The languages and dialects of Italy.pdf
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 contribute to the linguistic landscape. Following discussion of terminology, recent developments concerning the status, spread and vitality of the dialects are examined using a variety of quantitative and qualitative data. This method highlights how in many regions the use of traditional Italo-Romance dialects has strongly decreased at the same time as dialects have remarkably improved their position as far as attitudes and representations are concerned. Dialect has a particular use in the new domains of digital communication. Using Auer's Cone model and referencing different diglottic relationships, types of linguistic repertoires existing in present day Italy are also illustrated. Certain contact phenomena between Italian and dialects are also explored. Finally, a tentative evaluation of the endangerment/vitality degree of some dialects is sketched out.
Global Masterpieces and Italian Dialects
This essay suggests that the ultraminor can function as a paradigm to examine literature that emphasizes the minority status of the language in which it is composed. Engaging with Deleuze and Guattari's definition of minor literature and with Pascale Casanova and Lawrence Venuti's reflections on the role of translation in the shaping of world literature, it develops a comparison between two rewritings of Shakespeare into Italian dialects: Eduardo De Filippo's translation of The Tempest into Neapolitan and Luigi Meneghello's translation of Hamlet into vicentino. The essay underlines how these endeavors represent translations into languages that, at the time of writing, are considered by their authors in decline and doomed to extinction, and argues that both authors use translation to emphasize the historical memory of their native idioms. Both De Filippo and Meneghello, in fact, set out to challenge the subordinate status of Neapolitan and vicentino by proving that dialects are apt to express great thought as well as philosophical, abstract, and theoretical concepts.