The question of dialects : traveling towards the Southern Lazio of Rohlfs and Scheuermeier · In the period between the Risorgimento and the Great War, dialects and dialectology played an important role in defining both our national identity and Italy’s state borders. The memory of these facts has been lost since fascism and its anti-dialect policies, making some of our fathers’ choices opaque to us contemporaries. In order to regain contact with this reality, a path is proposed, divided into three stages (Porta Pia, the social question, the Great War), which brings together dialectology and anthropology, disciplines which in these decades have followed parallel paths and were destined to cross these paths in the crea- tion of the AIS, the Italo-Swiss Atlas. Particular attention is paid to the relations that both of them had with politics in order to have the most concrete impact possible on the construction of the unitary state. The youthful events of Rohlfs and Scheuermeier, the two main collectors of the AIS, provide the framework within which to present the role that dialects and dialectology played in Italy prior to their fundamental work of collection and research.
Nel periodo compreso fra il Risorgimento e la Grande Guerra i dialetti e la dialettologia hanno svolto un ruolo importante nella definizione sia della nostra identità nazionale, che degli stessi confini statuali dell’Italia. La memoria di questi fatti si è persa a partire dal fascismo e dalle sue politiche antidialettali, rendendo opache per noi contemporanei alcune scelte dei nostri padri. Allo scopo di recuperare il contatto con questa realtà si propone un percorso, articolato in tre tappe (Porta Pia, questione sociale, Grande Guerra), che mette in fase dialettologia e antropologia, discipline le quali in questi decenni percorrono vie parallele e destinate ad incrociarsi infine nella realizzazione dell’AIS, l’Atlante italo- svizzero. Un’attenzione particolare è rivolta ai rapporti che entrambe hanno intessuto con la politica al fine di incidere il più concretamente possibile nella costruzione dello stato unitario. Le vicende giovanili di Rohlfs e Scheuermeier, i due principali raccoglitori dell’AIS, offrono la cornice entro la quale presentare il ruolo che dialetti e dialettologia svolsero in Italia prima del loro fondamentale lavoro di raccolta e di ricerca.
La questione dei dialetti: in viaggio verso il Lazio di Rohlfs e Scheuermeier
APREA F
2021-01-01
Abstract
The question of dialects : traveling towards the Southern Lazio of Rohlfs and Scheuermeier · In the period between the Risorgimento and the Great War, dialects and dialectology played an important role in defining both our national identity and Italy’s state borders. The memory of these facts has been lost since fascism and its anti-dialect policies, making some of our fathers’ choices opaque to us contemporaries. In order to regain contact with this reality, a path is proposed, divided into three stages (Porta Pia, the social question, the Great War), which brings together dialectology and anthropology, disciplines which in these decades have followed parallel paths and were destined to cross these paths in the crea- tion of the AIS, the Italo-Swiss Atlas. Particular attention is paid to the relations that both of them had with politics in order to have the most concrete impact possible on the construction of the unitary state. The youthful events of Rohlfs and Scheuermeier, the two main collectors of the AIS, provide the framework within which to present the role that dialects and dialectology played in Italy prior to their fundamental work of collection and research.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
