"New linguistic issues", by Pier Pasolini, is causing scandal among linguists, philologists, writers, critics and intellectuals
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-8281.v1i1p13-21Keywords:
Linguistics, Italian language, Predominance of technical and scientific language, Centers of national language and culture (Milan and Turin)Abstract
Pasolini departs from the diagnosis of a problem: the critical quest stage in contemporary literature, centered on the 1950s; he points out the author´s inability to create the design for a national language. He goes on to analyze the deep mutation in Italian Society, which determineted a new socio-linguistic outlook; to wit, a language clearly marked by strong technicality and instrumentation. Drawing examples from newspapers, TV features, official political speeches and commercials, Pasolini demonstrates that factual communication takes precedence over formal expression. This is ascribed to one principle which sets both rules and approvals for all forms of national language. This fact, according to Pasolini, is the result of an industrial and technological transformation process, which would permite advent of a new linguistic bourgeoisie. The linguistic unification caused by such approving principle would, therefore, imply the social manifestation of the bourgeoisie.Downloads
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1993-12-30
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Negri, T. (1993). "New linguistic issues", by Pier Pasolini, is causing scandal among linguists, philologists, writers, critics and intellectuals. Revista De Italianística, 1(1), 13-21. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-8281.v1i1p13-21