The LiSDiGio project. Language and History of Discrimination in the Press of Republican Italy
Presented by the University for Foreigners of Siena (PI: Eugenio Salvatore) together with the Universities of Milan (coordinator: Fabio Guidali) and Cagliari (coordinator: Paolo Orrù) - the project is the recipient of a PRIN 2022 grant awarded by the Ministry of University and Research and the European Union (NextGeneration EU).
The project, lasting two years and starting in October 2023, aims to study the print media, a privileged source for the dissemination of news and commentary in twentieth-century Italy, through a multidisciplinary perspective that includes: historical reconstruction, lexical concordances, textual and enunciative structure of articles.
Through the realization of the project, we aim to set up a repository with various levels of reading and possible in-depth study, with the intention of addressing a cross-sectional audience ranging from the interested user to the expert scholar of history and linguistics, but also of other disciplines (economic, legal, social).
For the two-year project, the concept of “discrimination” was chosen as the macro-theme. The macro-theme is then declined into a series of micro-themes, each of which is examined on the basis of press interventions and debates on some significant and historicizing events. The micro-themes are:
- discrimination against women in the workplace;
- discrimination against migrants;
- discrimination against the sick.
The Home screen of the portal will contain a main menu with the following clickable items:
- EVENTS;
- ARTICLES;
- HISTORY;
- WORDS;
- VOICES;
- GLOSSARY;
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
In section B all articles not covered by Reproduction Rights will be made usable in HTML format; in section C there will be historical insights on context and debates related to the events examined; in sections D and E there will be research strings concerning lexical and textual-enunciative phenomena in the texts, which will be preliminarily marked by the working group.