SCUOLA O SCOLA ? MONOLINGUISMO, POLIMORFIA E VARIAZIONE NEI SILLABARI POSTUNITARI

After the creation of Italian State (1861), state school played an important role in the diffusion of Italian language and in the process of alphabetization. With the extension of compulsory education, scholastic publications knew a considerable amount. The high number of handbooks, anthologies and spelling books edited in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century constitute an important source to study the teaching practices and the features of Italian taught in school. In this regard spelling books provide many useful indications: conceived to teach reading and writing and to reinforce national identity of children, these little volumes try to propose a language that, even though he refers largely to the Manzonian model, shows a certain degree of variation.