Paolo Coluzzi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paolo Coluzzi plays a role.
Articles
2022 How learning Toki Pona may help improving communication strategies in a foreign or second language Language Problems and Language Planning 46:1, pp. 78–98 | Article
This article aims to explore the possibility that learning Toki Pona, a “minimalist” constructed language with a total lexicon of only 123 words, may help students to develop their skills in using communication strategies in the foreign or second language they are learning. After a general… read more
2021 Chapter 9. Revitalising contested languages: The case of Lombard Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 163–182 | Chapter
This chapter opens with an introduction to the Lombard language and its institutional and sociolinguistic situation, including the reasons why the term “language” is used and not the commonly used “dialect”. The second and main part of the chapter looks at what has been done to date and what is… read more
2015 Economic phenomena and ideologies behind language shift: From nationalism and globalization to modernization and the ideology of “new” Language Problems and Language Planning 39:1, pp. 70–83 | Article
This article examines the phenomenon of language shift from a macroeconomic and ideological perspective. More specifically it looks at how phenomena such as nationalism and globalization, which are closely related to the capitalist mode of production, have affected the spread of some languages and… read more
2015 The languages of places of worship in the Kuala Lumpur area: A study on the “religious” linguistic landscape in Malaysia Linguistic Landscape 1:3, pp. 243–267 | Article
This article presents the results of a piece of research on the languages used in places of worship carried out in the Kuala Lumpur area (Malaysia). Seven different places of worship were selected (a mosque, a Sikh gurdwara, two churches, a Chinese temple, a Hindu temple and a Theravada Buddhist… read more
2011 Majority and minority language planning in Brunei Darussalam Language Problems and Language Planning 35:3, pp. 222–240 | Article
This paper is an overview of language planning as carried out in Brunei Darussalam for Malay, its official language, English, its de facto other official language, and for the other eleven minority languages spoken in the country. After a general introduction to the country and its sociolinguistic… read more
2008 Language planning for Italian regional languages (“dialects”) Language Problems and Language Planning 32:3, pp. 215–236 | Article
In addition to twelve recognized minority languages (Law no. 482/1999), Italy features a number of non-recognized so-called “dialects” that is difficult to state, but which renowned linguists like Tullio De Mauro and Giulio Lepschy calculate as ranging between 12 and 15. These languages are still… read more
2008 Review of Ferguson (2006): Language Planning and Education Language Problems and Language Planning 32:1, pp. 70–72 | Review
2005 Language planning for the smallest language minority in Italy: The Cimbrians of Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige Language Problems and Language Planning 29:3, pp. 247–269 | Article
After an introduction to the Cimbrian language (a Bavarian variety that has maintained many characteristics of early Middle High German) and a brief overview of the sociolinguistic situation (attitudes in particular) in the area regarded as ‘ethnically’ Cimbrian, this article looks at the language… read more