LE FRANÇAIS ET L’ITALIEN : DEUX DESTINS LINGUISTIQUES ET DEUX REALITES CULTURELLES DIFFERENTES. ELEMENTS POUR UNE APPROCHE COMPARATIVE
FRENCH AND ITALIAN: TWO LINGUISTIC DESTINIES AND TWO DIFFERENT CULTURAL REALITIES. ELEMENTS FOR A COMPARATIVE APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: French and Italian: Two Linguistic Destinies and Two Different Cultural Realities. Elements for a Comparative Approach. The objective of my article is to reflect upon the linguistic situation of French and Italian. The research would like to establish some elements of comparison starting from the most important sectors of linguistics : synchrony, diachrony, and sociolinguistics. The article compares these two situations not only by considering the history of the two languages and the two countries but also by insisting on the differences of structuring on diatopic and diastratic levels. The main differences that result are the following : due to political, cultural, linguistic and administrative centralism French has created a standard French based on the linguistic model provided by Paris while Italian, which is at its origins the Toscan language, forms itself with an uncommom vivacity from different regional variants. The present development of Italy reveals no signs of standardisation, on the contrary...

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