Federico Gobbo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Federico Gobbo is involved.

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Gobbo, Federico 2021 Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto: From the world language problem to balanced multilingualism Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 247–268 | Chapter

The status of Esperanto, the language launched by Zamenhof in 1887, has been contested since its beginning. Esperanto became the most relevant of the International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) from a sociolinguistic perspective, as it successfully survived two World Wars in spite of being… read more

Gobbo, Federico and Laura Vardeu 2021 Chapter 13. Which Sardinian for education? The chance of CLIL-based laboratories: A case study Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 221–234 | Chapter

According to the UNESCO Atlas, Sardinian is an endangered language, and the debate about its promotion in Sardinia is lively and passionate (Moseley 2010). In fact, over the past two generations, the language vitality and vigour of the limba (in Sardinian: language) have been drastically reduced.… read more

Gobbo, Federico 2018 Chapter 7. How to measure linguistic justice? Theoretical considerations and the South Tyrol case study of the Calvet Language Barometer The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance, Kraus, Peter A. and François Grin (eds.), pp. 145–166 | Chapter

When the concept of linguistic justice was proposed by Pool (1991) in order to cope with the asymmetries quite often found in multilingual contexts, it immediately provoked a great deal of debate. To sum up the debate, there is broad agreement on the meaning of linguistic in-justice, but it is… read more

Gobbo, Federico 2017 Esther H. Schor. Bridge of words: Esperanto and the dream of a universal language Language Problems and Language Planning 41:3, pp. 321–323 | Review

Gobbo, Federico 2017 David J. Peterson. The art of language invention: From horse-lords to dark elves, the words behind the world-building Language Problems and Language Planning 41:2, pp. 214–216 | Review

Gobbo, Federico 2017 Claudio Marazzini e Alessio Petralli. La lingua italiana e le lingue romanze di fronte agli anglicismi Language Problems and Language Planning 41:2, pp. 210–213 | Review

Gobbo, Federico 2016 Review of Stojanović (2014): Dialogo sulle quote: Rappresentanza, eguaglianza e discriminazione nelle democrazie multiculturali Language Problems and Language Planning 40:1, pp. 108–111 | Review

Gobbo, Federico 2014 Review of Bastardas-Boada (2012): Language and identity policies in the ‘glocal’ age: New processes, effect, and principles of organization Language Problems and Language Planning 38:1, pp. 87–90 | Review

Gobbo, Federico 2014 Review of Blanke (2013): Pri terminologia laboro en Esperanto: Elektitaj publikaĵoj Language Problems and Language Planning 38:1, pp. 91–93 | Review

Gobbo, Federico 2014 Interlinguistics and Esperanto studies at universities: The experience at the University of Turin Language Problems and Language Planning 38:3, pp. 292–303 | Article

After 2010, following the Bologna process and the so-called ‘Gelmini reform’, universities in Italy were subjected to deep changes in administration, in research and education. The course in ‘Language Planning and Planned Languages’ was established in 2011–2012, under the initiative of the Istituto… read more