Lingue e società nell'Italia contemporanea

Abstract

Italian, dialects, and immigrant languages are changing and overlapping within a political and social landscape marked by major transformations and problematic forms of communication. At the same time, stereotypes, longstanding prejudices, and new perspectives crowd the debate on languages, both inside and outside educational institutions. Drawing on a broad dataset—linguistic and demographic, quantitative and qualitative—this volume analyzes the complex relationship between languages and society in 21st-century Italy and its recent past. It employs a range of descriptive and analytical tools, some of which are examined in depth in relation to evolving linguistic models, as the field grapples with new processes and emerging areas of research.