PROFILE
Vincenzo Orioles is full professor of Linguistics at the University of Udine; there he teaches Glottologia for the First level degree course (Bachelor’s programme 180 CTS) in Humanities (Lettere) and Comunicazione e lingue speciali for the Second level degree course (Two year Master - 120 ECTS) in Integrated Communication for Businesses and Organizations (Comunicazione Integrata per le Imprese e le Organizzazioni, Gorizia Campus). He works also for the Ph.D. in “Linguistic History of Eurasia” (University of Macerata) and for the Ph.D. in “Linguistic History of Ancient Mediterranean”, curriculum inLinguistic and Cultural History of Ancient Italy (IULM University in Languages and Communication in Milan).
Academic Positions
He is intensly working in the academic sector; he was a member of the university governing bodies. He directed the Department of Linguistics and Classical Philology (1995 – 1999) and the International Centre on Plurilingualism ( 1998 - 2004). He was academic dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures from 2004 to 2007.
Institutional Activity
Nationwide, he was a member of the executive committee of the Italian Society of Linguistics. He was its Secretary from 1987 to 1990 and its President in 1999 and 2000. From 2000 to 2001 he was a member of the technical advisory committee founded by the Minister for Regional Affairs. The committee was founded to bring into force law no. 482/1999 (“Rules for the protection of linguistic minorities”) by elaborating the concerning Regulation of Accomplishment. He was called to work with the study group on linguistic minorities which was instituted at the Ministry of Education.
Research Fields
Among his research, he deals with linguistic interference and multilingualism. He contributed to linguistic interference through methodological and applicative inputs and he devotes himself to the status of the languages and to the politics of linguistic diversity. He often takes part to nationwide relevant scientific projects about the history of linguistic thinking and linguistics’ metalanguage.
Publications
He wrote an essay on Russian loan-words in the Italian language. He gave the greatest care to the so-called “Sovietisms” (Roma, Il Calamo, 2006), to a collection of lexical pieces (Percorsi di parole, Roma, Il Calamo, 2006, 2nd ed.) and to a volume of contributions on minority languages (Le minoranze linguistiche. Profili sociolinguistici e quadro dei documenti di tutela, Roma, Il Calamo, 2003). He also authored various essays on subjects of crucial importance, such as interlinguistic contacts, the variability of the language and the linguistic terminology of the ancient pre-Roman Italian language. He encourages and promotes many publishing projects, editing conference proceedings and essays collections. He is editor-in-chief of the magazine "Plurilinguismo. Contatti di lingue e culture" (Udine, Forum) and the series "Lingue, culture e testi" (Roma, Il Calamo). He is co-editor of the periodicals "Incontri Linguistici" and "Rivista italiana di Linguistica e Dialettologia" (Pisa e Roma, Fabrizio Serra editions) and of the series "Lingue, linguaggi, metalinguaggio" (Roma, Il Calamo), and "Il Mediterraneo Plurilingue" (Le Mani ed., Genova – International Centre on Plurilingualism).
