Università della Svizzera italiana

Themen, Thesen und Argumente zur Position des Italienischen in der viersprachigen Schweiz

Christopher Guerra, Sabine ; Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera

In: Studies in communication sciences, 2008, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 67-91

From an empirical point of view, this article aims at analyzing the role of the Swiss press in a language and culture policy debate regarding the changing status of Italian in quadrilingual Switzerland that took place at the beginning of 2005 following the discontinuation of two Italian chairs at Swiss universities. The issue is practically ignored in French- and German-speaking Switzerland,...