LINGUISTIC POLITICS OF FASCISM AND THE BATTLE AGAINST DIALECTS (ANTI-DIALECT CAMPAIGN)

Abstract

This outing addresses the battle against dialects, anti-dialect campaign, which is an integral part of the linguistic politics of the fascism in Italy during the 20s and 30s of the last century. It's about the period in which the fascist authority of the totalitarian reign of Benito Mussolini intervened with great enthusiasm, with numerous measures and laws in the language department: its use and state as a result of the strengthening of the national identity and the tendency for a linguistic unification.