Massimiliano Canzanella
@mcanzanella.bsky.social
Language Activist, Writer and English Teacher.
www.canzanella.net
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MASTODASCIA and the Neapolitan Language are coming to London! ✈️ 🇬🇧
MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓
MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓
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Congrats @draliaamir.bsky.social
The 3 most frequently read Language-on-the-Move posts in 2024 were:
#3: What if I lose my language?
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#3: What if I lose my language?
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What if I lose my language? What if I have lost my language?
I admire people, who, on the move, maintain and transfer their heritage languages to the next generations. By “maintain,” I mean the transfer of spoken language or as a boli (Mahboob, 2…
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January 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Congrats @draliaamir.bsky.social
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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"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...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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
italianstudies.org.uk/2025/12/09/r...
"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
italianstudies.org.uk/2025/12/09/r...
MASTODASCIA and the Neapolitan Language are coming to London! ✈️ 🇬🇧
MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓
MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
MASTODASCIA and the Neapolitan Language are coming to London! ✈️ 🇬🇧
MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓
MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓
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.
youtu.be/tPjSR6M2ACc?...
Read by PhD candidate Neil McLelland (Glasgow University) and myself.
youtu.be/tPjSR6M2ACc?...
MASTODASCIA - Translation Studies Symposium organised by Dr Enza De Francisci University of Glasgow.
YouTube video by Massimiliano Canzanella
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December 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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.
youtu.be/tPjSR6M2ACc?...
Read by PhD candidate Neil McLelland (Glasgow University) and myself.
youtu.be/tPjSR6M2ACc?...
Reposted by Massimiliano Canzanella
Really looking forward to speaking at #IPCITI2025 tomorrow! My keynote, ‘Translating Rape’ will be hybrid. See below for details to register.
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Really looking forward to speaking at #IPCITI2025 tomorrow! My keynote, ‘Translating Rape’ will be hybrid. See below for details to register.
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.
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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.
Accussì se fa. 🏴 Way to go.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Accussì se fa. 🏴 Way to go.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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. 🙏
@mcanzanella.bsky.social is another member of the Language on the Move starter pack. He spoke with @tazinabdullah.bsky.social . I learned so much from this podcast ep about three Neapolitan language, and was inspired by Massimiliano's incredible scholarship and activism
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…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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.
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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.
Reposted by Massimiliano Canzanella
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)
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)
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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)
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)
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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"La risposta straordinaria del pubblico dimostra quanto sia sentita l'esigenza di tutelare e tramandare il nostro patrimonio linguistico."
www.giornalediplomatico.it/comites-succ...
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,
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October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Successo di “Mastodascia” a Glasgow.
"La risposta straordinaria del pubblico dimostra quanto sia sentita l'esigenza di tutelare e tramandare il nostro patrimonio linguistico."
www.giornalediplomatico.it/comites-succ...
"La risposta straordinaria del pubblico dimostra quanto sia sentita l'esigenza di tutelare e tramandare il nostro patrimonio linguistico."
www.giornalediplomatico.it/comites-succ...
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 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. 🏴 🙏 💙
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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 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.
September 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
A salient snippet from my Neapolitan lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland last Wednesday.
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.
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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.
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...
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...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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... 🎟 🎫
And why is one featuring Maradona’s Napoli jersey being delivered to the Tron Theatre in Glasgow? 🎭 🏴 🌋
www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod... 🎟 🎫
September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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... 🎟 🎫
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.
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.
September 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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.
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. ❤️
September 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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. ❤️
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.
July 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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!
Tickets on sale soon!
June 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Mastodascia - Fri 17 October 2025 - Tron Theatre, Glasgow.
Tickets on sale soon!
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
Julio Cortázar
May 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
«Nosotros tenemos más necesidad de Che Guevara, del lenguaje y de revolucionarios de la literatura que de letrados de la revolución».
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar
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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. ⬇️
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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…
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May 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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...
www.languageonthemove.com/alexander-vo...
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Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!
Not me over here citing Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism (Figueroa, 2024) on these word gap posts that keep coming across my Instagram feed 🤮
@meganfigueroa.bsky.social
@meganfigueroa.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!