Overview
This book investigates Italian foreign cultural policy from the 1947 Constitution to the present. The analysis reveals two interesting and parallel features: on the one hand the requirement to promote 'high culture' and on the other the need to deal with complex issues relating to emigration. How has this dilemma inherent in Italian foreign cultural policy been dealt with? To what extent has the Italian State confronted these two apparently opposite challenges? The Australian context is used here as an example to show how the dichotomy of migrants versus culture-promotion abroad has gradually been addressed, with a view to a reconciliation which now seems imminent.
Full Product Details
Author: Mariella Totaro-Genevois
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.376kg
ISBN: 9781853597992
ISBN 10: 1853597996
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 06 April 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
""Mariella Totaro-Genevois explores for the first time the interaction between Italy's promotion of Italian language and culture abroad, its support for emigrants' language maintenance, the immigrant group's own maintenance policies, and the migration country's response to its multiculturalism. This interaction has led to Italian being one of the most widely studied languages in Australian schools. The study will provide a model for similar research on other languages. Professor Michael Clyne, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross Cultural Communication University of Melbourne, Australia""
Mariella Totaro-Genevois explores for the first time the interaction between Italy's promotion of Italian language and culture abroad, its support for emigrants' language maintenance, the immigrant group's own maintenance policies, and the migration country's response to its multiculturalism. This interaction has led to Italian being one of the most widely studied languages in Australian schools. The study will provide a model for similar research on other languages. Professor Michael Clyne, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross Cultural Communication University of Melbourne, Australia
Author Information
Mariella Totaro-Genevois was born in Italy to an Italian mother and French father. She moved to Australia with her young family in the mid-1960s and now lives in Sydney. She has a Law degree from the University of Turin, an MA Honours in Italian Studies (University of Sydney) and a PhD in European Studies (Monash University). She taught in the Department of Italian at Sydney University for 18 years and then in Romance Languages at Monash (1992-1997), and has worked intensively in the development of curricula and examinations in Italian studies. Mariella has co-authored several successful books for teaching Italian at tertiary and secondary levels.
