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Lingua Italiana e identità: Il caso del fumetto paninaro
Abstract
From 1986 to 1989, Paninaro was the best selling comic magazine in Italy.
Beside being a comic magazine, it represented also the link between identity
and language in the second half of the 1980s. For the Italian youth, Paninaro
served as model of behaviour showing them how to talk, what to wear, how to
live. The language used in Paninaro was considered a sub-standard. The aim
of this paper is to show how the paninaro’s language showed all the
characteristics that later entered the Italian language from the1990s onward.
Beside being a comic magazine, it represented also the link between identity
and language in the second half of the 1980s. For the Italian youth, Paninaro
served as model of behaviour showing them how to talk, what to wear, how to
live. The language used in Paninaro was considered a sub-standard. The aim
of this paper is to show how the paninaro’s language showed all the
characteristics that later entered the Italian language from the1990s onward.
