Mario Morcellini opened March 22 at the Palazzo Firenze in Rome XXI refresher course PLIDA for teachers of Italian for foreigners, which will run until March 26, 2010
Alessandro Masi, Secretary General of the Società Dante Alighieri, inaugurated during the twenty-first PLIDA
"Today innovation is through linguistic communication: the speaker's statement assumes a great responsibility, becoming the creator and the symbol of the Italian language change." With these words Mario Morcellini, Dean of the Faculty of Communication at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, opened March 22 in Florence, Palazzo XXI PLIDA refresher course for teachers of Italian for foreigners sponsored by the Dante Alighieri Society, which will run until March 26 on the next theme "Italian, media and new media " .
intervention Mario Morcellini
"The change of communication is very fast and it is unthinkable to stop it with the words - said Morcellini teachers of "Dante", stressing the need to consider the media as a means of training at school -. The influence of the past on the Italian language was achieved by intellectuals, academics and the so-called "Organized culture" today rather than in decline. " "The power of words is extraordinary - he concluded - the words are fundamental in our relations. If you want to understand the change of communication is necessary to first understand the changing forms of expression and language. "
intervention Elena Pistolesi
The morning , opened by the intervention Secretary General of the Società Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Masi, continued with the report Elena Pistolesi, a professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, which has investigated the various types of writing used in chat , sms and email , "that are very close to contemporary speech, representing a very important mode of transmission of thought."