This paper examines the main features of regional Italian in central-northern Apulia. In the area, the presence of several dialectal microareas and some alloglotte minorities causes a very fragmented repertoire. The regional Italian represents an important variety, since the presence of strong dynamics that go from the bottom to the standard, whit the Italianization of the dialects, can help to create a shared regional Italian, reducing local differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
This paper gives an essay of an unpublished book written in the dialect of San Pietro Vernotico (Brindisi, Southern Italy) by the author's grandfather. Only the first chapter of a legendary description of the town is reproduced and translated in Italian with a few linguistic comments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
The paper aims at providing a linguistic account on the description of agricultural and societal practices during the first part of the XX c. narrated in a recent book written with large excerpts in the Sallentinian dialect of Sava (Tarentum, Southern Italy). Diffuse references are made to popular traditions as seen by the eyes of a young boy and rivisited as an old man with the true words of the local dialect which are here emphasized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]