Prime Minister Giuliano Amato Name Tullio Mauro Political party Independent | Nationality Italian Preceded by Luigi Berlinguer Succeeded by Letizia Moratti | |
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Born 31 March 1932 (age 92)
Torre Annunziata, Campania ( 1932-03-31 ) Alma mater Sapienza University of Rome Education Sapienza University of Rome Books Ludwig Wittgenstein: His Place in the Development of Semantics Similar People Andrea Camilleri, Roberto Cotroneo, Dario Antiseri | ||
Tullio de mauro storia linguistica dell italia unita
Tullio De Mauro (31 March 1932 – 5 January 2017) was an Italian linguist, a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and an Italian politician.
Contents
- Tullio de mauro storia linguistica dell italia unita
- Tullio De Mauro vedendo il linguaggio e chi lo usa
- Biography
- Conferences
- Honors
- Selected works
- References
Tullio De Mauro: vedendo il linguaggio e chi lo usa
Biography
He was the younger brother of the journalist Mauro De Mauro who was kidnapped and killed in September 1970, while investigating the Sicilian Mafia.
He was born in Torre Annunziata, Province of Naples. In 1963 he published the monumental Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita ("Linguistic History of Unified Italy"). Two years later De Mauro published L'introduzione alla semantica ("Introduction to Semantics") and, in 1971, Senso e significato.
After preparing the entries on semiotics of the Treccani encyclopedia and publishing the short volume Minisemantica (1982), De Mauro turned to the problem of linguistic education.
De Mauro had been teaching philosophy of language and was director of the Department of Linguistic Science at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
In 1975 he has been elected to the Regional Council of Lazio in the lists of PCI. In 1976 he has been appointed commissioner for culture, position he held until 1978.
He was the Minister of Education during the second Government of Prime Minister Guliano Amato.
From 2001 to 2010 he chaired digital world, the foundation of the city of Rome.
He has collaborated in newspapers and magazines: 1956-1964 with the weekly Il Mondo, from 1966 to 1979 the newspaper Paese Sera, from 1981 to 1990 with regular columns on the school (1981–85) and language (1986 ff.) the weekly L'Espresso. He occasionally collaborated with L'Unità, La Stampa, La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Il Sole-24 Ore, Il Mattino and regularly with Internazionale with the headings "The word" since 2006 and "Schools" since 2008.
Between 1960 and 1973 he collaborated frequently on radio and television RAI when he went back to work again in 1997-2000. Since 1978 he has worked in cycles of radio and television broadcasts of the RTSI (Swiss Italian Radio and Television).
Conferences
De Mauro delivered lectures and gave seminars in universities in various countries:
He has held individual lessons in Italian universities and in some Italian cultural institutes abroad and the lesson cycles sns of Pisa (1973), the IUSS in Pavia as Visiting (2007), University of Tübingen (2009) and to 'computerized university Neptune (2009).
Honors
He was awarded the international prize by Giambattista Vico Foundation of Naples and Vatolla (2009). June, 23rd 2006, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded him for all of his research and study the Prize of the President of the Republic, given to him by the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in October.
He has received numerous honorary degrees, including: