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2025
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18659445 |
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- <p><strong>The Linguistic Problem of the Anglophone Expat in Italy</strong></p> <p>Living in Italy as an English-speaking expat—whether from the United States, the United</p> <p>Kingdom, Canada, Australia, or other Anglophone regions—requires far more than</p> <p>functional conversational Italian. The everyday linguistic landscape of Italy is shaped by</p> <p>three parallel but historically interconnected registers: <strong>standard literary Italian</strong>,</p> <p><strong>administrative–bureaucratic Italian</strong>, and <strong>journalistic Italian</strong>, each with a distinct lexicon,</p> <p>morphological structure, and communicative logic. Yet the overwhelming majority of</p> <p>Anglophone newcomers, even highly educated ones, approach Italian as if it were a</p> <p>simplified Romance analogue of English or Spanish. This assumption produces systematic</p> <p>misunderstandings in institutional communication, legal procedures, medical contexts,</p> <p>immigration offices, municipal governance, rental and tenancy matters, tax administration,</p> <p>and media consumption.</p> <p> </p>