14th Italian Language Week in the World
Writing the New Europe: Italian Publishers, Authors and Readers in the Digital Era
Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy
The stories narrated in this volume, which fall under a category between a personal essay and an academic essay, are a way of giving an account of one’s own unpublished research in Italy.
This volume is about telegraphs and computers, typewriters and keyboards. Above all of them stands the email symbol (@) with its development and its past, the words used to identify it in the different languages around the world; the universal symbol which it has become and the many other symbols with which it became associated.
Massimo Arcangeli is Full Professor of Italian Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Cagliari. He has been invited to teach and deliver public lectures in Italy, in Europe and all over the world. A linguist, a sociologist of communication, a literary critic and writer, he directs various editorial projects, and collaborates with radio and TV programmes as well as with Treccani Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia. As a leading writer and columnist, he contributes articles to numerous newspapers and periodicals. He has served as External Examiner at the University of Malta for the academic years 2011/2012 and 2013/2014. He is the author of over 500 publications (both printed and online), among which 10 monographs. His latest books are Cercasi Dante disperatamente: L’italiano alla deriva (Rome: Carocci, 2012) and Orizzonti inversi: Poesia di tutti, poesia per tutti (Rome: Aracne, 2014, together with Stefania Rabuffetti).