Italian cuisine between language, culture and teaching by Pierangela Diadori

A webinar and
a meeting with teachers and students of Italian conducted by
prof. Pierangela Diadori,
author, together with Prof. Giovanna Frosini, of the book:
Italian cuisine between language, culture and teaching
Italian cuisine – together with many other forms of culture – has contributed for many centuries to the construction of a reality that is not so much political or territorial, but rather based on the exchange and sharing of tastes, daily practices, ways of life, artistic expressions and literary, a reality that since the Middle Ages has been perceived as “Italy” (and called Italy) by the protagonists themselves. In this volume, Italian food culture is presented from a historical, sociolinguistic, textual, literary and artistic point of view, with a view to its use also in teaching the Italian language and culture to foreigners. The history, the texts, the lexicon of cooking, like the foodscapes and images that populate iconography and cinema, represent in fact a precious material for bringing learners closer, in a more in-depth and articulated way, to a multisensory world that already is present in the collective imagination. The work concludes with some proposals for the use of written and audiovisual texts, with examples of teaching units ready for use.

Pierangela Diadori is full professor of Italian Linguistics and director of the “DITALS Research and Service Center” (Certification of Competence in Teaching Italian to Foreigners) at the University for Foreigners of Siena, where she teaches Teaching Italian as a second language and Translation theory and technique in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She is co-director of the magazine “Lingua e testi di Oggi”.

Giovanna Frosini is full professor of History of the Italian language at the University for Foreigners of Siena, where she directs the Doctoral School. An academic of Crusca, she is vice-president of the Giovanni Boccaccio National Body and is part of the scientific council of the Casa Artusi Foundation. He directs (with Luigi Matt) «Italian linguistic studies» and is part of the management committee of «Italian lexicography studies» and «Lingua e stile». She is national coordinator of the PRIN AtLiTeG project (Atlas of the language and texts of Italian gastronomic culture from the medieval age to the Unification).

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