Language policies and speakers' attitudes: evaluating the impact of official recognition on some of Italy's regional languages

The panel focuses on the minority (some of them highly endangered) languages of Italy, with a special attention to those which are not recognized (nor supported) by the Italian Government. Key points will be a. the official language policy of Italy, b. language discrimination, c. language ideology and d. the ambiguous role of academic institutions vis-à-vis languages and dialects, e. the effects (and results) of official support for recognized minority languages, as well as f. grassroots approaches to the standardization and development of unrecognized languages and new developments on the net.