Language, Nation and Identity
Academic archive. Comparative sociolinguistics, Final degree project, 2025
La questione della lingua tra l'Italia e il Cile
How language became part of national identity in nineteenth-century Italy and Chile.
Context
A final degree project in Modern Languages and Literatures at the Universitat de València, supervised by Paolino Nappi in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Approach
- A qualitative historical-comparative design, using the same domains, education, administration and the press, to examine both countries.
- Comparison of language models and debates associated with Manzoni and Ascoli in Italy, and Bello and Sarmiento in Chile.
- Reading literary, normative and journalistic material in its political and educational context.
What the work produced
A comparative dissertation examining how different institutional and cultural conditions shaped the establishment of national language standards.
Connection to interpreting
Language choices carry institutional and cultural meaning. Understanding that context is part of understanding a message before carrying it into another language.
Reference material
- TFG corretto final.pdf, methodology, pp. 7-9; comparative analysis and conclusion, pp. 32-36.
This page summarises academic work supplied for this portfolio. It describes the project and its methods; it is not a client assignment or a published research claim.
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