This year's edition of the Italian Week in the World is dedicated to the theme theme "Italian and the network, networks for Italian". Sociolinguist Vera Gheno, who regularly collaborates with the prestigious Accademia della Crusca and the Zanichelli publishing company, is in Australia for a series of lectures titled Playful raids into a 'networked' Italian, which will examine the Italian language mainly in its relation to and its evolution within the new media: where does this new language come from, how is it evolving? What does it reveal about us but, most importantly, where is it heading to?
Vera Gheno (L) and Magica Fossati in our studios
Vera Gheno will be at the Italian Institute of Culture in Melbourne and then in Sydney.
