Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This study is a vast review in time and space of the transitory trace of onomasiologic fragmentation of linguistic interdiction, of all those reality and sensations which come under the prohibition of being pronounced with their true name, because they are not to be called into question, and consequently, they are rendered present. Taking the clue from the geographic context of the basin of Adda and Mera, the extent of linguistic and ethnographic comparison is gradually widened to include all the Italian dialects and the principal European languages.
Synopsis
Linguistic interdiction, with its imposition of avoiding evocative words of fearful emotions, is the cause of the pulverization of lexicon. Tracing the multiplication of referents, the diverse sectors within which prohibitions of various nature have operated in the past (and often continue to operate) are identified, in most cases in an unsuspected manner: the religious senti-ments, the wonder and fear in front of immense atmospheric and geological phenomena, the mysterious behaviour of many insects and animals, the sudden and unexplainable emergence of pathological and sickly state of mind, sexuality, death.
Synopsis
L'interdizione linguistica, imponendo di evitare le parole evocative di emozioni paurose, causa della polverizzazione del lessico. Inseguendo il moltiplicarsi dei referenti, vengono individuati i diversi settori, il pi delle volte insospettati, entro i quali hanno agito nel passato (e spesso continuano ad agire) divieti di varia natura: il sentimento religioso, lo stupore e il timore di fronte ai grandi fenomeni atmosferici e geologici, i comportamenti misteriosi di molti insetti e animali, l'insorgere improvviso e inspiegabile di stati d'animo patologici e di malattie, la sessualit , la morte.