Massimiliano Canzanella
@mcanzanella.bsky.social
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Language Activist, Writer and English Teacher. www.canzanella.net
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You've been telt, by AI an aw.
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You've been telt, by AI an aw.
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The Vocal Fries
about 1 month ago
I meant to post this yesterday, but I got into the cleaning zone. Is my place still messy? Yes, but hush
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Massimiliano Canzanella
The Vocal Fries
about 2 months ago
2. The Italian N-Word, where we talk with
@mcanzanella.bsky.social
about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy
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The Italian N-Word - The Vocal Fries
Megan and Carrie talk with Massimiliano Canzanella about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy.Asian languages and the LA fires
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/episodes/16634404
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Massimiliano Canzanella
The Vocal Fries
about 2 months ago
It's that time of year again! our top 5 episodes for 2025 5. Peven Stinker, where we talk smack about Pinker
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Peven Stinker - The Vocal Fries
We have a few things to say about Pinker.Part of the War on ScienceThe Language InstinctPinker on Race RealismCo-authored paper on overregularizationThe Open Letter to the LSAThe article that Carrie w...
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/episodes/17927252
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Massimiliano Canzanella
Dr Laura Smith-Khan
about 1 year ago
Congrats
@draliaamir.bsky.social
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Thanks for the mention, THE SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES. 🙏 "As a way of drawing attention to lesser-spoken languages, such as southern Italian considered a ‘vulnerable’ language by UNESCO, Massimiliano Canzanella and Neil McClelland
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Report: 'Pirandello and Modern Italian Writers: From Page to Stage', 1 December 2025 (Glasgow) - The Society of Italian Studies
Pirandello and Modern Italian Writers: From Page to Stage On Monday 1st December 2025, in the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, we launched our hybrid panel, ‘Pirandello and Moder...
https://italianstudies.org.uk/2025/12/09/report-pirandello-and-modern-italian-writers-from-page-to-stage-1-december-2025-glasgow/
2 months ago
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MASTODASCIA and the Neapolitan Language are coming to London! ✈️ 🇬🇧 MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓
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2 months ago
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An excerpt from the reading of my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (CARPENTER) at the Translation Studies Symposium (University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre) organised by Dr Enza De Francisci. Read by PhD candidate Neil McLelland (Glasgow University) and myself.
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MASTODASCIA - Translation Studies Symposium organised by Dr Enza De Francisci University of Glasgow.
YouTube video by Massimiliano Canzanella
https://youtu.be/tPjSR6M2ACc?si=iZEiTlVFClMLcW5k
2 months ago
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Massimiliano Canzanella
Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney
3 months ago
Really looking forward to speaking at
#IPCITI2025
tomorrow! My keynote, ‘Translating Rape’ will be hybrid. See below for details to register.
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Yesterday, with my friend, lead actor and PhD candidate Neil McClelland, at the Translation Studies Symposium organised by Dr Enza De Francisci at the University of Glasgow.
2 months ago
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Accussì se fa. 🏴 Way to go.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9891455007o
3 months ago
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I cannot thank
@tazinabdullah.bsky.social
and the whole
@languageonthemove.bsky.social
Team enough. You have literally put our language and the plight of its speakers on the world linguistics map. And thank you,
@lauraskh.bsky.social
, for your deeply humbling words. 🙏
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3 months ago
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I am delighted and honoured to have been invited - courtesy of Dr Enza De Francisci - to present my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (Neapolitan with English translation) at the Translation Studies Symposium which will be held next 1 December at the University of Glasgow.
3 months ago
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Massimiliano Canzanella
Dr Laura Smith-Khan
3 months ago
I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳 For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast. Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)
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Successo di “Mastodascia” a Glasgow. "La risposta straordinaria del pubblico dimostra quanto sia sentita l'esigenza di tutelare e tramandare il nostro patrimonio linguistico."
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Comites: successo di “Mastodascia” a Glasgow lettura scenica bil
GD - Glasgow, 18 ott. 25 - Sold-out al Tron Theatre per Mastodascia, lettura scenica bilingue napoletano-inglese appena andata in scena. L'iniziativa,
https://www.giornalediplomatico.it/comites-successo-di-amastodasciaa-a-glasgow-lettura-scenica-bilingue.htm
4 months ago
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Thank you to everyone who came out to see my bilingual play MASTODASCIA last night! A fantastic audience and a beautiful array of languages with Scots and Neapolitan being the jewels in the crown. 👑 Huge thanks to Derrick McClure for being such mesmerising chorus. 🏴 🙏 💙
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A salient snippet from my Neapolitan lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland last Wednesday.
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5 months ago
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This coming Wednesday, at the University of Edinburgh. Huge thanks to Dr Daniela Sannino for inviting me and the Department of European Languages and Cultures for hosting the event.
5 months ago
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Neapolitan, Scots, Yiddish, Ainu and Romani are on the way out. Unless we do something about it, of course.
blog.gts-translation.com/2023/03/21/f...
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Five Languages You Didn't Know Were Close to Extinction - GTS Blog
by Kevin Carneglia Did you know there are around 6,500 languages spoken in the world today? Many of them are actually close to extinction. Some of them have as little as one speaker left in the entire...
https://blog.gts-translation.com/2023/03/21/five-languages-you-didnt-know-were-close-to-extinction/
5 months ago
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So what’s a Deus Ex Machina? And why is one featuring Maradona’s Napoli jersey being delivered to the Tron Theatre in Glasgow? 🎭 🏴 🌋
www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod...
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5 months ago
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Pe accattà ’e bbigliette ncoppa a internet:
www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod...
🎫 🎟️ Oppure pe telèfono: +44 (0)141 552 4267. MASTODASCIA è finanziato c’ ‘o contribbuto ’e COMITES Scotland and Northern Ireland.
5 months ago
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Thanks for sharing news of my play, Bellahouston Academy! 🙏 Never a day goes by when I don’t feel fortunate and proud of teaching at Bella. ❤️
6 months ago
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Tickets are now on sale! 🏴 ⚽️ 🇦🇷 💙 📚 🔨 🪚 🪜
www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod...
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Mastodascia - Tron Theatre
Mastodascia is adapted from the classic Scottish play Sailmaker by Alan Spence.
https://www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastodascia/
6 months ago
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Cu Neil McClelland stammatina simmo state ô Teatro Tron ’e Glasgow pe vedé ’a Changing House addó ô 17 ’e Uttobbre pròssimo se rappresentarrà ’a traggedia dinto a duie atte Mastodascia.
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7 months ago
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Mastodascia - Fri 17 October 2025 - Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Tickets on sale soon!
8 months ago
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«Nosotros tenemos más necesidad de Che Guevara, del lenguaje y de revolucionarios de la literatura que de letrados de la revolución». Julio Cortázar
9 months ago
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Massimiliano Canzanella
Tazin Abdullah
9 months ago
Listen to Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller's inspiring words about using the resources researchers are given to "pay it forward" as she accepts her 2025 Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship Award on this
@languageonthemove.bsky.social
post. ⬇️
www.languageonthemove.com/alexander-vo...
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Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship Awards 2025
Dear Language-on-the-Move Community, It is with immense gratitude and excitement that I write this special news item about a recent career development: I’ve been awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt P…
https://www.languageonthemove.com/alexander-von-humboldt-professorship-awards-2025/
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Megan Figueroa
9 months ago
Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!
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Since the master bigots who have shamelessly added the racial slur 'Napoli' to the Italian language dictionary do not have the guts to do it, I have borrowed John Steinbeck's illustration of the term 'Okie' from 'The Grapes of Wrath' to clarify the meaning of…
10 months ago
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Massimiliano Canzanella
Kevin Castro, MA
over 2 years ago
"The decision to adopt one tongue and stop using another is not neutral; it is tied, inevitably, to power and prestige. … Language revitalisation is thus one part of a broader struggle for linguistic justice, which embraces the ability to thrive in one’s language of choosing"
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Language is at the heart of Indigenous community health | Aeon Essays
For First Nations people, health is not a matter of mechanical fitness of the body, but of language, identity and belonging
https://aeon.co/essays/language-is-at-the-heart-of-indigenous-community-health
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I was very glad and proud to produce the English translation and subtitles for ’A Figliata (The Delivery), a bilingual Neapolitan-Italian short documentary by Serbian artist Slobodanka Ciric...
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#'AFigliata#SlobodankaCiric#AlanDeLuca#PatrizioRispo,#AntonellaCioli#SlyProduction#Feminiello#Napoli
YouTube video by Slobodanka Ciric Official
https://youtu.be/GhDvkgFyado?si=EKbwjFIsK5YUj4cf
10 months ago
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Massimiliano Canzanella
Tazin Abdullah
10 months ago
What an informative
@languageonthemove.bsky.social
podcast by
@empacheco.bsky.social
about better ways to work with atypical language users! ⬇️
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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks to Massimiliano Canzanella. The conversation delves into the history of the Neapolitan language and the interplay of culture, race, and national identity that…
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Lingua Napoletana and Language Oppression | New Books in Italian Studies - Podcast on Goodpods
Have you ever heard of Lingua Napoletana or Neapolitan, the language of Naples?In this episode of the Language on t... | Listen & Review on Goodpods™
https://goodpods.com/podcasts/new-books-in-italian-studies-14887/lingua-napoletana-and-language-oppression-88951970
10 months ago
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For Scott McTominay, the Neapolitan language and culture assimilation is complete. 💙🏴🌋
#mcfràtemo
#mcmybrother
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10 months ago
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This animation film is indeed poetry. A huge thank you to the amazingly talented director Arron Quinn 💐 for giving our language a wonderful chance to shine: ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe in Neapolitan.
#neapolitanlanguage
#dialettonapoletano
#linguanapoletana
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ANNABEL LEE 'e Edgar Allan Poe
YouTube video by Massimiliano Canzanella
https://youtu.be/HgOf47MjNbQ?si=HCcfjFk39xUdIgqe
10 months ago
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How the Italian ‘parla bene’ or ‘speak properly’ continues to perpetrate evil on Neapolitan schoolchildren and their parents/carers. Language oppression is one of the most diabolical forms of violence…
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10 months ago
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Professor Magnus Course from the University of Edinburgh on the fundamental role played by my novels securing a future for the Neapolitan language.
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10 months ago
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In perfectly Orwellian style, at the University of Naples (Italy) Federico II, there is a department dedicated to the promotion of bilingualism; yet the same department is concurrently denying the possibility for Neapolitans to also speak their L1 in the classroom…
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Lingua Napoletana and language oppression
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/lingua-napoletana-and-language-oppression
10 months ago
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Massimiliano Canzanella
Tazin Abdullah
10 months ago
Did you know about the Neapolitan language? I didn’t, until I spoke to my wonderful guest
@mcanzanella.bsky.social
about language activism and preserving the Neapolitan language against all odds on this
@languageonthemove.bsky.social
podcast! ⬇️
www.languageonthemove.com/lingua-napol..
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Lingua Napoletana and language oppression
Have you ever heard of Lingua Napoletana or Neapolitan, the language of Naples? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks to Massimiliano Canzanella, a Neapolitan l…
https://www.languageonthemove.com/lingua-napol..
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There is much more to Neapolitan Language and Culture than the racialising gaze of Elena Ferrante and Roberto Saviano... even AI knows it.
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11 months ago
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In Naples, the artistic genius of a native speaker of Neapolitan by the name of Pino Daniele is being celebrated. Yet the ‘Napoli bene’ – the Italian speaking and therefore ‘well-to-do’ people on the right-hand side – appropriated the event and made sure…
11 months ago
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The expansive value of language activism and preservation in a sea nutshell. An amazingly inspiring person and story.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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The young musician aiming to preserve a Black Isle dialect
Musician Grace Stewart-Skinner is creating a music album to celebrate the fishing heritage of a Black Isle village
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cg5dn7101nlo
11 months ago
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Che ato le putesse maie augurà a na guagliona eccezionale – patuta ’e Taylor Swift – ca chesta semmana fa diciotto anne?
#nuncrésceremaie
🎂 🪄 ❤️ What else could I wish such an amazing girl – and Swiftie – who will be turning eighteen this week?
#nevergrowup
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12 months ago
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Could bringing oppressed languages to the stage help save them? Last night, in Glasgow 🏴 ,
@neilmcc91.bsky.social
and I had a first go at it.
#bilingualism
#heritagelanguages
#LinguisticDiversity
12 months ago
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Can bilingual drama performances help save languages? Alan Spence’s masterpiece The Sailmaker to return to the stage as ’O Mastodascia – a Neapolitan adaptation by Massimiliano Canzanella.
12 months ago
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On the way to Edinburgh to meet Alan Spence. 🚂 When The Sailmaker 🏴 meets ’O Mastodascia 🌋. Si uno vo ’o permesso pe adattà l’òpera ’e nu grande scrittore scozzese, amMAKARo ha da tènere ’a crianza ’e ce ’o gghì a cercà ’a vicino.
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VUIE FASCISTE GIÀ ÂTE PERZO (All you fascists are bound to lose) ô viulino antifascista (on the anti fascist fiddle) 🎻 Jamie Wilson ‘All you fascists’ - words by Woody Guthrie
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Language on the Move
12 months ago
International Mother Language Day! Good time to shout out the fantastic team of LangDentity, an online language school supporting the maintenance of Shona and Ndebele in the diaspora
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