Tullio De Mauro

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Tullio De Mauro (31 March 1932 – 5 January 2017) was an

Career

Born in Torre Annunziata, De Mauro was the younger brother of the journalist Mauro De Mauro, who was kidnapped and killed in September 1970, while investigating the Sicilian Mafia.

In 1963, De Mauro published the monumental Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita ("Linguistic History of Unified Italy"). Two years later De Mauro published L'introduzione alla semantica ("Introduction to Semantics") and, in 1971, Senso e significato.^[1] After preparing the entries on semiotics of the Treccani encyclopedia and publishing the short volume Minisemantica (1982), De Mauro turned to the problem of language education.

De Mauro was a professor at the

As a linguist, De Mauro also took an interest in Esperanto, writing about the language in his works. He was especially interested in the likely advantages of Esperanto for the EU legislative system, as a witness or reference version of European laws and official documents.^[2] He also edited a foreword for the Esperantic manual of Bruno Migliorini (Cooperativa Editoriale Esperanto, Milan, 1995).^[1]

Conferences

De Mauro delivered lectures and gave seminars at universities in several countries:

• Albania (Tirana, 2005),
• Argentina (1995, Buenos Aires),
• Belgium (1968: UL Brussels 1974: Leuven and Louvain visiting UC),
• Brazil (1995 and Fluminense Federal Rio de Janeiro),
• Canada (1988 Quebec; 1993 Montreal),
• Chile (1995: State, Santiago),
• Peking
  Bedo;, 2005: Faculty of languages),
• France (1969: Aix-en-Provence; 1972: Paris VII),
• Köln, Hamburg
  ),
• Germany (1994: Freie Universitaet Berlin, Potsdam, 2008 Freie Universitaet Berlin and Humboldt, Stuttgart 2009),
• Japan (1980: Waseda University and University of Tokyo Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, 1987, visiting Waseda University Tokyo, 1988, Waseda University Tokyo, Kyoto, 1990: Waseda University, Sophia University, Tokyo, 1995, Waseda University, as a guest of the Japan Foundation;, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008: Tokyo Waseda),
• Great Britain (1979: Reading, London 2004),
• Greece (2009: Panteion University of Athens),
• Hungary (1985: Budapest, Szeged),
• Netherlands (1975: Amsterdam),
• Norway (1978: Oslo, Bergen),
• Romania (Bucharest, 2009),
• Cordoba, Málaga, 1994: Zaragoza
  ),
• Sweden (1966: Stockholm, Uppsala, Gothenburg, 1978: Uppsala, 1989, Stockholm, 2005 Stockholm),
• Switzerland (1968: Geneva, Zürich, Basel, 1972: Geneva, 1977 Geneva, Bern, 1987, Geneva, 1991: visiting Bern),
• United States (New York University 1992).

He held single guest lectures at numerous Italian universities and Italian cultural institutes abroad. Among his most noteworthy lecture series were those held at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1973, the Scuola Superiore Studi Pavia IUSS as visiting professor in 2007, the University of Tübingen in 2009, and the online Università telematica internazionale Uninettuno in 2009.

Honors

• Rome 1 June 2007 - Medal meritorious of science and culture (From the
  Italian President Giorgio Napolitano
  )
• Rome 11 June 2001 - 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross (From the
  Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  )
• Rome 2 May 1996 - 2nd Class / Grand Officer (From the
  Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
  )

• 1999 he was nominated honorary doctor philosophiae et litterarum by the
  Catholic University of Louvain
• 2005 doctor honoris causa ENS (
  École Normale Supérieure
  )
• 1 April 2008, the Waseda University in Tokyo nominated doctor honoris causa in humanities
• 27 February 2009 the University of Bucharest named him an honorary doctor
• 10 November 2010 by the University
  Sorbonne Nouvelle
  .

Bibliography

• Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita (prima edizione 1963, Laterza)
• Introduzione alla semantica (prima edizione 1965, Laterza)
• Introduzione, traduzione e commento del Corso di linguistica generale di Ferdinand de Saussure (prima edizione 1967, Laterza; dal 1972 l'apparato di De Mauro correda l'edizione originale francese)
• Senso e significato (raccolta di saggi, 1971, Adriatica, Bari)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: his Place in the Development of Semantics (1966, Dordrecht)
• Parlare italiano (1973)
• Scuola e linguaggio (1977, 1978)
• Guida all'uso delle parole (prima edizione 1980, Editori Riuniti)
• Minisemantica (prima edizione 1982, Laterza)
• Capire le parole (raccolta di saggi, prima edizione 1994, Laterza)
• Direzione del Grande Dizionario Italiano dell'Uso, 6 voll. (1999, Utet)
• Prima lezione sul linguaggio (2002, Laterza)
• La cultura degli italiani a cura di Francesco Erbani (2004, Laterza)
• La fabbrica delle parole (2005, Utet)
• Introduzione, traduzione e commento degli Scritti inediti di linguistica generale di Ferdinand de Saussure (2005, Laterza)
• Parole di giorni lontani (2006, il Mulino)
• Lezioni di linguistica teorica (2008, Laterza)
• Che cosa è una lingua
• In principio c'era la parola? (2009, Il Mulino)
• Parole di giorni un po' meno lontani (2012, il Mulino)
• La lingua batte dove il dente duole (2013, Laterza; scritto con Andrea Camilleri)

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