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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972542303321

Autore

Totaro-Genevois Mariella <1937->

Titolo

Cultural and linguistic policy abroad : the Italian experience / / Mariella Totaro-Genevois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo, N.Y., : Multilingual Matters, c2005

ISBN

9786610828531

9781853598018

9781280828539

1280828536

9781853598012

1853598011

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Multilingual Matters

Disciplina

306.44/945

Soggetti

Language policy - Italy - History - 20th century

Language and culture - Italy

Italian language - 20th century

National characteristics, Italian

Italy Foreign relations 20th century

Italy Civilization 1945-

Italy Cultural policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-280).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Culture, Cultural Relations and Cultural Policies -- Chapter 2. The Italian Constitution and the Development of Italian Society -- Chapter 3. Democracy on Trial: The First Twenty Years of the Italian Constitution -- Chapter 4. Italian Legislation for the Diffusion of Language and Culture Abroad -- Chapter 5. Who’s in Charge? -- Chapter 6. Memory and History: The Living Experience of Italian Cultural Policies Abroad -- Chapter 7. Language Policy Developments in Australia 1948–1998 -- Chapter 8. Italian Language and Culture at the ‘Altro Polo’ -- Conclusion -- References

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates Italian foreign cultural policy from the 1947



Constitution to the present. The analysis reveals two interesting and parallel features: on the one hand the requirement to promote ‘high culture’ and on the other the need to deal with complex issues relating to emigration. How has this dilemma inherent in Italian foreign cultural policy been dealt with? To what extent has the Italian State confronted these two apparently opposite challenges? The Australian context is used here as an example to show how the dichotomy of migrants versus culture-promotion abroad has gradually been addressed, with a view to a reconciliation which now seems imminent.