Massimiliano Canzanella

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Tazin!

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. 🙏

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.

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)

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,

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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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. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 💙

A salient snippet from my Neapolitan lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland last Wednesday.

Miercudì chistu lloco, a l’Università ’e Edimburgo. Grazie assaie ô Dr Daniela Sannino ca m’ ’a mmitato e ô Dipartimento ’e Lengue e Culture Europèe ca ospitarrà l’evento.

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.

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...

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...

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... 🎟 🎫

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.

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. ❤️

Mastodascia - Tron Theatre Mastodascia is adapted from the classic Scottish play Sailmaker by Alan Spence.

Tickets are now on sale! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽️ 🇦🇷 💙 📚 🔨 🪚 🪜

www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod...

With Neil McClelland, this morning we went to see the Changing House that on the 17th October 2025 will host a performance of the tragedy in two acts Mastodascia (Carpenter).

Mastodascia is produced with the contribution of COMITES Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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.

Mastodascia - Fri 17 October 2025 - Tron Theatre, Glasgow.

Tickets on sale soon!

«Nosotros tenemos más necesidad de Che Guevara, del lenguaje y de revolucionarios de la literatura que de letrados de la revolución».
Julio Cortázar

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…

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...

Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!

of what might otherwise be misinterpreted as a "generic and mostly inoffensive derogatory term".

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…

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

"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" aeon.co/essays/langu...

the marginalisation and the suffering of individuals as well as groups within the community and society as a whole.

It is a film that stands – in a way that is remarkably daring – against all forms of homophobia; but it is also, in my view, an attack on snobbery and bigotry, forms of bias that often lead to…

YouTube video by Slobodanka Ciric Official #'AFigliata#SlobodankaCiric#AlanDeLuca#PatrizioRispo,#AntonellaCioli#SlyProduction#Feminiello#Napoli

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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What an informative @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast by @empacheco.bsky.social about better ways to work with atypical language users! ⬇️

to be written entirely in Neapolitan (and also available in English translation).

have contributed to the oppression of the language and its speakers. Massimiliano also discusses his own journey as a language activist and the movement to preserve Neapolitan, including his novels, Set Your Soul To It and You Don’t Say, which were the first…