Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

in use as well as the responsibility of

privileged users committed to the

renobilitation of the standard language and

of dialects, also in order to render the

instrument of their signification dantesquely

“illustrious” and “cardinal.”

It is easy to understand what remains of

the old dichotomy between language “of

culture” and language “of nature”, referred

to the possible demarcation between

national language and dialect. Because the

common language found itself in the

position of having to embody and express

these two conditions at a time when it had

to assume the responsibilities of mass media

communications by creating a new

grammar, capable of regulating the new

linguistic conventions on the basis of the

colorless pronunciation of the language of

information and of the repetitive and