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l capitolo presenta la situazione giuridica e statutaria della comunità ladina e le iniziative pubbliche di pianificazione linguistica. Dopo un breve paragrafo introduttivo, si tratta dello status planning del ladino in ambito amministrativo, nella scuola, nella toponomastica e nei media; il paragrafo successivo fa cenno alle attività istituzionali di promozione della lingua e della cultura ladina attraverso i centri di tutela istituzionali.

Il capitolo presenta la condizione delle varietà ladine nei loro processi di «ausbauizzazione»; la posizione degli idiomi viene discussa secondo linee interpretative che vanno dalla loro posizione nello spazio comunicativo delle comunità alla costruzione di varietà graficamente e linguisticamente definite, alla proposta di una eventuale lingua tetto unificata, alla discussione della produzione lessicografica in quanto motore della costruzione linguistica.

Towards an identification of “Linguistic Unease”. This paper argues that the assessment of sociolinguistic justice should pass through the promotion of linguistic ease, analysed through a number of sociolinguistic parameters already in use for the repertoires of multilingual communities. Their consideration makes it possible to focus on complexity of globalising and localising forces, beyond the West phalian model of nation-state. In particular, three axes of analysis should be taken into account: the formality of situations; the sense of belonging; special domains, like school and writing.

The paper focuses on the geolinguistic treatment of demographic data, and more specifically of data elicited in multilingual settings. After establishing the basis of this chapter by briefly situating and differentiating geolinguistics and demolinguistics as subdisciplines of linguistics, we turn to a discussion of the kind of demolinguistic data on which a geolinguistic analysis is based and a brief presentation of the instruments (censuses, polls, and surveys) that are commonly used to gather such data. The final section homes in on the geolinguistic treatment of demolinguistic data by means of language maps.

L’objectif de cet article est de montrer la diffusion des dénominations de « taupe » dans le domaine linguistique roman. L’approche méthodologique est principalement de type onomasiologique, mais les parentés étymologiques formelles sont aussi prises en considération. Le résultat le plus remarquable de la recherche est la mise en évidence du rapport dialectique au niveau diatopique entre les aboutissements modernes d’une forme centrale prélatine *darb et les formes périphériques abouties du latin rurale (ou des langues italiques anciennes)

The paper illustrates theoretically the notion of 'linguistic unease' within the debate of (socio)linguistic justice. Here we analyse the sociolinguistic implications of the notion, focusing on the multilingual complex in which communicative interactions take place. The notion is discussed through the proposal of an interpretative framework that enucleates the contexts in which discomfort emerges and suggests predictive indicators for its identification.

The present paper deals with methodological aspects of Italian quantitative sociolinguistic research. It discusses a number of projects, showing the increasing vitality of this approach, which, despite being rooted in international mainstream research, displays considerable scientific novelty. Special attention is paid to the projects carried out by the Centre d’Études Linguistiques pour l’Europe (Milan), the Free University of Bozen/ Bolzano and the research group of the Atlante linguistico della Sicilia at the CSFLS. Within these projects the quantitative sociolinguistic approach is discussed in depth. New means of discussing the data are explored that go beyond their mere statistical presentation and offer ways of interpreting the linguistic reality of multilingual situations without the bias of possible previous assumptions by the researcher. Italian quantitative projects comprise large sociolinguistic polls conducted throughout Europe as well as more focused studies on specific multilingual situations. Particular attention will be given to the treatment of sociolinguistic data at both macro and micro levels of analysis. It will be shown that in Italian research, quantitative sociolinguistics always goes hand in hand with qualitative and dialectal research.

The notion of linguistic justice should be related to the concept of linguistic ease, by which we mean the full social and communicative freedom of concern of the speaker in a given social interaction involving the use of language(s) present in the society, according to the social norms of use. To acquire an acceptable degree of linguistic ease, the knowledge of at least one L2 is considered important. But the acquisition of a L2 is interfered by the previous linguistic skills of the learner/speaker who, in many cases, does not have a suitable competence even of the languages of the society in which he/she lives.

In this paper we introduce to the public a new linguistic atlas, PALWaM (the Little Linguistic Atlas of the Southern Walser). The atlas is peculiar for several reasons. first of all, it focusses on the non contiguous territory of the Southern Walser, a group of Highest Alemannic dialects spoken in Piedmont and Aosta Valley, previously surveyed as part of the wider Sprachatlas der Deutschen Schweiz. Secondly, it is the product of the unprecedented collaboration of both an academic scientific committee and a working group made up of speakers of the local varieties and of members of the cultural associations on the territory. Finally, from a methodological point of view, the atlas places side by side a classical descriptive chart, an interpretative chart, an etymological-historical commentary and fragments of ethnographic interviews. These features make PALWaM a rather little, but very rich linguistic atlas.