The contents of this paper are the result of the Author’s reflections on the centennial celebration of the beginning of World War I (1914-2014). An overview of the various linguistic documents ...available on the topic (personal letters, post-cards, diaries and memoirs written by the soldiers and by their family members) (Section I) will be followed by the analysis of the motivations at the basis of Leo Spitzer’s efforts to collect, transcribe and publish a selection of texts written by Italian prisoners of war held in Austrian camps (Section II). The closing section (III) will focus on the documents collected after the publication of Spitzer’s seminal work; a few considerations on the possibility of continuing Spitzer’s philological legacy will be offered to the reader, through the edition of a hitherto unpublished letter displaying a number of Salentine linguistic features.
The article is an attempt at analysing the biographical episode which inclined Proust to rework Bergotte’s death in In Search of Lost Time. Renzi shows how literature (or more generally: art) and ...life intertwine. By analysing fragments of Proust’s famous novel as well as his records and letters, the author presents the French writer as an avid fan of Vermeer’s paintings. He also touches upon the history of the influence of the Dutch painter on Proust’s works.
In occasione della scomparsa di Tullio De Mauro il 5 gennaio 2017, l'autore cerca di ricostruire la fisionomia del grande linguista e uomo di cultura passando in rassegna una parte della sua opera ...imponente. Questa comprende i suoi scritti, ma, accanto a questi, anche le sue iniziative di politica linguistica e di orientamento culturale, particolarmente nel campo della scuola. Questi orientamenti, nuovi e originali, hanno avuto molto seguito e hanno prodotto influssi positivi in Italia a partire dagli Anni Sessanta del Novecento in poi. L'autore mette particolare impegno nel ricostruire la teoria generale della lingua di De Mauro, che è rimasta col tempo piuttosto in ombra rispetto ai suoi orientamenti pratici, che derivavano peraltro direttamente da quella teoria.
This book provides a detailed introduction to Romance linguistics, giving valuable informationon 1) working techniques and tools, 2) the sub-disciplines of linguistics, and 3) Romance languages, thus ...linking theoretical reflection with practical skills. The book is divided into 13 identically structured units (including working techniques, branches of linguistics, and language outlines) that provide a condensed introduction to the field. Particular focus is placed on the extensive exercise section.
The article is an attempt at analysing the biographical episode which inclined Proust to rework Bergotte’s death in In Search of Lost Time. Renzi shows how literature (or more generally: art) and ...life intertwine. By analysing fragments of Proust’s famous novel as well as his records and letters, the author presents the French writer as an avid fan of Vermeer’s paintings. He also touches upon the history of the influence of the Dutch painter on Proust’s works.
Alberto Varvaro, a member of the Scientific Committee of Verba, died in Naples on October 22, 2014. He was born in Palermo in 1934. For forty years he was professor of Philology at Románica na ...Università di Napoli Federico II.
According to Eugenio Coseriu, a historical language is not a homogeneous system, but it encompasses variable parts at different linguistic levels such as lexicon, phonetics, morphology, syntax, etc. ...This heterogeneousness constitutes what he calls the "architecture" of the language, or its "external structure". The external structure has three dimensions: diatopic (concerning place), diastratic (social) and diaphasic (stylistic). Coseriu's stylistics is clearly a stylistique de la langue, not one of literature. In his vision, poetry represents "the full functionality of language" and an "absolute speaking". The paper connects these expressions with Croce's conception of poetry. Croce's ideas, as well as the ideas of some Italian linguists (especially A. Pagliaro), had a considerable and lasting influence on Coseriu's thought, at the time he attended university in Italy. Adapted from the source document
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