Language and Identities: The Exceptional Normality of Italy
John Kinder
Language issues loom large in current debates on Italian identity/identities, indigenous minorities Italy and, of course, immigration. While the context language early 21st century presents new realities and challenges, fundamental are same as those originally defined by first European planner, Dante, reworked successive theorists. The turn exclusions inclusions, levels multiple identities, understandings otherness. It is no accident that at once a provocation for identity metaphor debates, tensions run through lie heart itself. All cultures have narrative explains diversity among languages cultures, either result mistake or divine punishment. Biblical accounts Creation, Babel Pentecost provide framework diversity. These capture paradoxical nature human language, which characterizes us species tool building unity between persons groups, but is, its nature, always inevitably an expression diversity, time space. contradictions being played out emigration, return migration, internal migration immigration elicit constructions ‘Italianness’, literary canon social weight different varieties present soil communities abroad.
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