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Coluzzi, Paolo; Brasca, Lissander; Miola, Emanuele – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Devising a writing system, or graphisation, is a fundamental aspect of corpus planning that no language can take too lightly. This paper begins with a general introduction to graphisation and to Italian regional languages, followed by an analysis of the different orthographies in use so far or proposed for the main regional languages in Italy,…
Descriptors: Written Language, Geographic Regions, Case Studies, Italian
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De Angelis, Gessica – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
The present article examines the effect of population distribution on L1 (Italian) and L2 (German) acquisition in the multilingual context of South Tyrol, Italy. Population distribution is regarded as a central variable to assess the impact of two factors included in willingness to communicate (WTC) theory: (1) Fear of assimilation to the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism