Article outline

• 2.1Regional cultures and identities
  • 2.1.1Development of Italian regional identities
  • 2.1.2What are Italian regions?
  • 2.1.3Some cultural models in post-war Italy
  • 2.1.4Macro-regions: North and south (and centre)
  • 2.1.5Italian regions in this study
• 2.2Languages and dialects in Italy
  • 2.2.1Relationship between language and dialect in contemporary Italy
  • 2.2.2The case of the Sardinian language
  • 2.2.3Official data on reported dialect use
  • 2.2.4Regional varieties of Italian
  • 2.2.5Social prestige attached to varieties of Italian
• 2.3Geography in studies on Italian address
  • 2.3.1Italy presented as one geographical area
  • 2.3.2Italy presented in macro-regions
  • 2.3.3Italy presented in smaller regions
  • 2.3.4Information about one geographical location
    • 2.3.4.1Survey-based studies
    • 2.3.4.2Corpus-based and ethnographic studies
• 2.4Conclusions
• Notes