Tullio De Mauro


Tullio De Mauro was an Italian linguist, a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and an Italian politician.

Biography

He was the younger brother of the journalist Mauro De Mauro who was kidnapped and killed in September 1970, while investigating the Sicilian Mafia.
He was born in Torre Annunziata, Province of Naples. In 1963 he published the monumental Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita. Two years later De Mauro published L'introduzione alla semantica and, in 1971, Senso e significato.
After preparing the entries on semiotics of the Treccani encyclopedia and publishing the short volume Minisemantica, De Mauro turned to the problem of linguistic education.
De Mauro was a professor at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and was director of the Department of Linguistic Science at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
In 1975 he has been elected to the Regional Council of Lazio in the lists of PCI. In 1976 he has been appointed commissioner for culture, position he held until 1978.
He was the Minister of Education during the second Government of Prime Minister Guliano Amato.
From 2001 to 2010 he chaired digital world, the foundation of the city of Rome.
He has collaborated in newspapers and magazines: 1956-1964 with the weekly Il Mondo, from 1966 to 1979 the newspaper Paese Sera, from 1981 to 1990 with regular columns on the school and language the weekly L'Espresso. He occasionally collaborated with L'Unità, La Stampa, La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Il Sole-24 Ore, Il Mattino and regularly with Internazionale with the headings "The word" since 2006 and "Schools" since 2008.
Between 1960 and 1973 he collaborated frequently on radio and television RAI when he went back to work again in 1997-2000. Since 1978 he has worked in cycles of radio and television broadcasts of the RTSI.

Conferences

De Mauro delivered lectures and gave seminars at universities in various countries:
He has held individual lessons in Italian universities and in some Italian cultural institutes abroad and the lesson cycles sns of Pisa, the IUSS in Pavia as Visiting, University of Tübingen and to 'computerized university Neptune.

Honors

He was awarded the international prize by Giambattista Vico Foundation of Naples and Vatolla.
June, 23rd 2006, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded him for all of his research and study the Prize of the President of the Republic, given to him by the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in October.
He has received numerous honorary degrees, including: