Here you will find the abstracts of the articles published in the Online Handbook. These articles discuss concepts that are inductively deduced from linguistic cultures and include fundamental language-critical topics such as “language criticism and language norms”, “language criticism and standardization”, “language criticism and language purism”, “language criticism and language institutions” as well as “language criticism and language ideologies”. You may access the comparative articles reflecting these topics by means of language comparisons and cultural comparisons (for German, English, French, Italian, and Croatian) via the tab “language criticism in European comparison”.
Recent article:
Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in Italian
Abstract. In present-day Italy, alongside Italian as the official language, French, German, Ladinian and Slovenian all have co-official status at the local level. A total of twelve minority languages enjoy special status. Since the latter days of the Middle Ages, there has been a keen awareness that natural languages manifest themselves in the form of multiple variations. The gradual process by which the various dialects were overtaken by the Florentine vernacular was met with both positive and negative assessments. These can be divided into two complementary streams, one of which is committed to monolingualism and has adhered to literary-aesthetic or, later, ideological-political arguments, and another that is pluralistic in nature. The negotiations surrounding the diversity of the variations, as well as the competing glottonyms that have emerged over the centuries, the designations for linguistic minorities, the positioning vis-à-vis Anglo-American influence and the discussions concerning shifting norms in the spirit of ‘political correctness’ are all expressions and conveyances of linguistic ideologies that will be presented here as examples.
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Language institutions and language criticism in Italian
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Linguistic purism and language criticism in Italian
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Standardisation and language criticism in Italian
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Critique of language norms in Italian
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