Italiano, oggi: l’antico, il nuovo

Abstract

The Italian language has not undergone much substantial change in time; it is open to wath is new while at the same time preserving her firm roots in the past. Rural civilization survives in the common use expressions, but nowadays they find their sources in the new developments: the world of the machine, computers, the world of science and technique. It is now up to the media, newspapers and television, to widen the knowledge of the new words, no more to books or writers, as used to hapen in past times. The Italian language is becoming more and more orality oriented every day. The professional variety which most recently is exerting the strongest influence on our language is that of bureaucracy which has introduced a number of forms of expression which met a wide acceptance even in Standard Italian.