Diglossia and language ideology Petrarch on linguistic variation and differentiation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7795027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marco Spreafico (The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-48 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historiographia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/hl.00061.spr |
| OpenAlex | W3080917203 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Petrarch’s metalinguistic observations are scattered throughout his work, rare and for the most part elliptical. The present article closely examines Petrarch’s statements about language to arrive at an alternative interpretation to that of previous scholarship. We analyse the ideas, attitudes and beliefs that inform Petrarch’s conception of the difference between Latin and the vernacular languages. The first section provides a critique of the now prevailing view on Petrarch’s metalinguistic thinking. Mirko Tavoni and Silvia Rizzo hypothesize that Petrarch ‘was not conscious of being bilingual’, since he considered Latin and vernaculars as different stylistic varieties of one and the same language. In the remaining two sections we propose an alternative account. Comparing statements made by contemporaries of Petrarch and investigating their origin and rationale, we suggest that Petrarch’s conception and practice cannot be accounted for within a modern perspective of national language and are better captured by the notion of diglossia, in which two linguistic varieties are delimited by the contexts of their use
Art · Diglossia · History of linguistics · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Vernacular · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
Language in Society
Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Ausbau sociolinguistics and the perception of language status in contemporary Europe
Understanding Arabic
Methodology of Social Sciences
Bilingualism With and Without Diglossia; Diglossia With and Without Bilingualism
Petrarch, Latin, and Italian Renaissance Latinity
Orality, Literacy, and Medieval Textualization
Outline of a theory of diglossia
Diglossia
Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization
Decline and Survival of Western Prestige Languages
Islam Observed
Dialect, Language, Nation1
Status and Style in Language
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |