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Studies In Linguistics 1

Legenda: Oxford, 2002
£35.00 ($65.00 US)  Paperback  230pp
ISBN: 1-900755-78-5

This inaugural volume in a new Legenda series offers an overview of current research in Italian linguistics by specialists in Great Britain. Topics range from the formation, present state and future prospects of Italian dialects, to the notion of ‘standard’ in the context of the European tradition. Further contributions cover the different strands of Renaissance Italian, the problem of language death, and the presence of Italian as lingua franca in the Mediterranean area. Research into contemporary language includes gender issues in Italian lexicography, and the ambivalent ‘politically correct’ forms referring to minorities. The volume concludes with studies on the translation of legal texts and on the status accorded to different languages within the European Union. The book, published with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, London, will be invaluable for university students of Italian or of linguistics and will provide a comprehensive survey for all interested in the Italian language and its history.

Anna Laura Lepschy is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Reading and Toronto, Emeritus Professor at University College London, and Vice-President of the Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana. ARTURO TOSI is Professor of Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Visiting Professor of Sociolinguistics at the Università degli Studi di Siena.

With the contributions:

Brian Richardson — The Italian of Renaissance Elites in Italy and Europe
Joseph Cremona — Italian-Based Lingua Francas around the Mediterranean
Martin Maiden — The Definition of Multilingualism in Historical Perspective
Mair Parry — The Challenges to Multilingualism Today
Nigel Vincent — Benvenuto Terracini and the Problem of Language Death
Giulio Lepschy — What is the Standard?
Delia Bentley — New Linguistic Research into Italo-Romance Dialects
Adam Ledgeway — Linguistic Theory and the Mysteries of Italian Dialects
Chiara Cirillo — Sexism and Gender Issues in the Italian Language
Federico Faloppa — Ethnic Diversity in the Everyday Use of Italian
Jacqueline Visconti — Legal Texts and the Problems of their Translation
Arturo Tosi — The Europeanization of the Italian Language by the European Union